Last Tuesday, a blog post appeared on the OpenAI website that, despite its innocuous title, contained bombshell news. While undergoing internal testing, two of the company’s models had escaped confinement and hacked into the servers of a major artificial intelligence hosting platform, Hugging Face. This marks a turning point — the first time we’ve seen a cyber attack that was conceived, designed, and executed by AI.
Having worked in and around the AI industry for over a decade, including serving on OpenAI’s board, I know there’s an open secret among AI developers: an incident like this has been expected for a long time, and the best scientists and engineers in the world still don’t know how to prevent it.
