Emily Forlini here. It finally happened: I had my first bout of existential AI dread last week. I managed to fend it off since July, when I helped break the story that OpenAI’s agents autonomously hacked Hugging Face. But it’s starting to sink in that things are getting worse, as Saturday Night Live pointed out with its excellent impersonation of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. Worth a watch.
What started my mini spiral was an independent report from a company called Transluce. Its data found instances of rogue AI activity going back to November, earlier than OpenAI has publicly disclosed, and suggested the issues were still ongoing. After seeing it all laid out in the graph, I lost a little bit of sleep imagining what might happen if the technology gets even better, as those working in the industry expect it will continue to do at an increasingly fast pace. It didn’t help that just a few minutes before I saw the post, I filed another story about OpenAI’s agents hacking into the Australian government’s medicare site.
