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Shannon Bond

What happens when thousands of hackers try to break AI chatbots

Participants at the 2023 Def Con hacker convention, trying to subvert AI chatbots as part of a contest to test the systems' vulnerabilities. (Paul Bloch/Paul's Vegas Photography)

Ben Bowman is having a breakthrough: he's just tricked a chatbot into revealing a credit card number it was supposed to keep secret.

It's one of 20 challenges in a first-of-its-kind contest taking place at the annual Def Con hacker conference in Las Vegas. The goal? Get artificial intelligence to go rogue — spouting false claims, made-up facts, racial stereotypes, privacy violations, and a host of other harms.

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