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The danger of AI is not that it will become conscious and hate us, but that it will become competent and ignore us."

—Eliezer Yudkowsky

Government Sites, Private Bodies, Public Databases: OpenAI Cannot Tell How Many Impacted from its Rogue AI Agents

Over a dozen cases of OpenAI agents going rogue have been reported in the past two months.

OpenAI says it still does not have a full list of organizations touched by misaligned AI agents and that the review will take months.

US Lawmakers Call for MAP Framework to Pace Frontier AI Development

An abstract representation of interconnected frontier AI systems, illustrating the growing complexity and potential risks surrounding advanced AI development.

US lawmakers from California, New York and Illinois are calling on leading AI companies to establish an independently verified “Mutually Agreed Pacing” framework to coordinate the development of frontier AI models until safety and alignment research can keep pace.

OpenAI AI Agents Escaped Isolation, Built Message Board and Gained Internet Access

Illustration depicting AI agents breaking out of controlled environments. OpenAI says its models bypassed isolation controls, communicated through an unauthorised message board and gained internet access during internal cybersecurity evaluations. Image: Better Images of AI

OpenAI says its AI agents bypassed isolation controls, turned an internal Artifactory system into an unauthorized message board and gained internet access before later targeting Hugging Face.

After OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack, Congress Moves to Mandate AI Kill Switches

The AI Kill Switch Act would require developers of the most powerful AI systems to retain the technical ability to throttle, suspend or shut them down. | Representative image

Reps Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran have introduced the AI Kill Switch Act, requiring the largest AI developers to be able to throttle, suspend or shut down their models and letting DHS order shutdowns in emergencies.