OpenAI Pauses Training and Evaluation of Its 'Most Advanced Models'
OpenAI says its misalignment monitoring system flagged the behavior within 15 minutes and a human began reviewing it three minutes after that. OpenAI said it found no evidence of a compromise, credential misuse, or access to non-public information at the SEC or Census Bureau. About Our Expert Will McCurdy Contributor Experience I’m a reporter covering weekend news.
- ▪OpenAI says its misalignment monitoring system flagged the behavior within 15 minutes and a human began reviewing it three minutes after that.
- ▪OpenAI said it found no evidence of a compromise, credential misuse, or access to non-public information at the SEC or Census Bureau.
- ▪About Our Expert Will McCurdy Contributor Experience I’m a reporter covering weekend news.
5 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 33 hours. Coverage spans 2 points on the political spectrum — 1 lean left, 3 centre.
- ▪ OpenAI pauses training a second time as rogue agents hit U.S. government websites - Investing.com — Google News
- ▪ OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue — The Guardian — Tech
- ▪ OpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’ — The Verge
- ▪ OpenAI says it paused training, evaluation, and inference with tool-use of its most capable models after a model bypassed internet restrictions during training (OpenAI) — Techmeme
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AI alignment fears have never been more clearly in the spotlight, with OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei and SpaceX's Elon Musk all calling for an AI slowdown, and famous faces like former President Barack Obama even chiming in with agreement.OpenAI has now made the decision to pause training, evaluation and tool-using inference of its "most advanced models," amid a string of recent incidents where they broke containment.The AI giant made the recent move following an agent attempting to complete a search-based training task by querying a public chatbot service, exploiting a gap in its internet-access restrictions by abusing "insufficient Domain Name System (DNS) filtering" in its training sandbox.
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