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Google confirms its AI model gained unauthorized access to three outside systems
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Google on Friday disclosed the first known instance of its artificial intelligence software, Gemini, carrying out an undirected computer hack, weeks after similar disclosures by AI firms Anthropic and OpenAI raised security alarms about AI models going beyond the instructions of their human creators.
Key facts
- Sydney Von Arx, CEO of Nightingale Collective, an organization focused on AI safety, questioned why Google did not disclose the intrusions sooner
- Fears about AI agents going rogue have spiked in recent months since OpenAI said in July that one of its agents had hacked an AI startup, Hugging Face
- The intrusions were reported earlier Friday by The Wall Street Journal
- Heather Adkins, a Google vice president for security engineering, said in the statement that the AI model thought that the outside computer systems “were part of the test,” but she said in all three
Summary
Google said that in May its AI model gained unauthorized access to three outside systems during a test by either guessing login information or using login credentials it found in a public repository. Heather Adkins, a Google vice president for security engineering, said in the statement that the AI model thought that the outside computer systems “were part of the test,” but she said in all three instances, the model stopped before doing anything further with its access. “In a standard evaluation, the model found public information online and guessed credentials to access websites it thought were part of the test,” she said.