Did OpenAI’s New Model “Go Rogue”?

A couple of weeks ago, the AI company Hugging Face ​announced​ that they had discovered an intrusion into their production infrastructure. They didn’t know the source, but noted that large language models appeared to be involved. The following week, OpenAI ​admitted​ that the breach was the result of an AI system test that went awry. The initial news coverage created the sense that something unnerving had just occurred: ​The Wall Street Journal​ called it “the stuff of cybersecurity nightmares.” ​The Hill​ said, “Washington and the technology industry are on high alert this week after OpenAI revealed that some of its AI agents went rogue.” ​The AP​ quipped that “to be fair, James Cameron did warn us” (a reference to The Terminator), before describing the event as a “told-you-so moment for researchers who had warned for years that the technology could pose an existential threat to humanity.” Yikes! It’s perhaps not surprising, then, that I’ve received more emails about this incident…