OpenAI’s Rogue AI Hack Urgently Needs Federal Investigation, AI Safety Researchers Warn
“We could not have asked for a clearer warning shot,” the researchers wrote in an open letter published Thursday and addressed to the president, acting attorney general Todd Blanche, commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, national cyber director Sean Cairncross, and other federal officials. It was exactly the kind of unexpected, highly sophisticated hacking behavior that cybersecurity experts have been fearing for months, since the arrival of Anthropic’s Mythos earlier this year made such attacks seem less like a distant sci-fi scenario and more of an actual, imminent threat. As was the case with the OpenAI jailbreak, the hacks occurred during internal cybersecurity tests.
- ▪“We could not have asked for a clearer warning shot,” the researchers wrote in an open letter published Thursday and addressed to the president, acting attorney general Todd Blanche, commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, national cyber directo
- ▪It was exactly the kind of unexpected, highly sophisticated hacking behavior that cybersecurity experts have been fearing for months, since the arrival of Anthropic’s Mythos earlier this year made such attacks seem less like a distant sci-f
- ▪As was the case with the OpenAI jailbreak, the hacks occurred during internal cybersecurity tests.
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