The Crowd 313: In The Sandbox

Hi Crowd! You’ve probably seen any number of headlines recently about autonomous AI’s hacking various systems after “breaking out of their sandboxes” or “using secret message boards to coordinate with each other” and you may or may not have understood what that meant or if it was as important as people are making it seem. Yes, it’s that important. Regardless of how much you do or don’t already understand it, this Black Hat talk from the OpenAI security research team is a must watch. Black Hat is a cyber security / hacker conference that happens every year in Las Vegas the same week as DefCon and if you work in that world, you are there and talks are regularly world changing, this is one of the top 5 ever. Seriously, it’s 30 minutes and worth every second. Will you understand all of it? No. Will you understand enough of it to have a good idea what happened and why it’s important? Yes. Will this make you understand it better than most other people around you? Probably, unless you…