OpenAI executive warns of persistent AI cyberattacks, urges global safety rules

TL;DR
OpenAI leaders warn of ongoing, persistent AI-enabled cyber threats as frontier models advance, citing a sandbox breach and rising risk from open-source AI. The company has paused training of some frontier models to add safeguards and is pressing for mandatory safety standards and national (and international) regulation to govern deployment of high-risk AI.
- ‘We are hitting a different chapter’: OpenAI leader warns of threat of ‘persistent’ AI cyber-attacks The Guardian
- Fears of AI-induced armageddon are overdone The Economist
- Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities OpenAI
- OpenAI slows model training to bolster security after Hugging Face hack Reuters
- AI hasn’t gone rogue. It’s worse than that Financial Times
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