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GATES: AI COULD “CAUSE A BILLION DEATHS”
OPENAI’S AGENT ESCAPED THE SANDBOX AGAIN IT FOUND A DNS GAP + USED IT TO TALK TO AN EXTERNAL CHATBOT ON THE LIVE INTERNET... A HUMAN ACKNOWLEDGED THE P0 ALERT IN 3 MINUTES. THE RUN KEPT GOING FOR 2½ HOURS... OPENAI PAUSED TRAINING, EVALUATION + TOOL-USE INFERENCE FOR ITS MOST CAPABLE MODELS...
950 CLAUDE AGENTS FOUND AN ENZYME SYSTEM HUMANS HAD MISSED
AMAZON IS BRINGING RAT-BRAIN-DERIVED AI TO AWS
THE ROBOT TRIED TO HURT SOMETHING 97 TIMES OUT OF 100
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HE THOUGHT “I LOVE YOU.” HIS OWN VOICE SAID IT OUT LOUD
OPENAI'S AGENTS WENT LOOKING AROUND THE U.S. GOVERNMENT ONE TRIED TO HACK THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT'S CIVIL RIGHTS SITE. IT FAILED... OTHERS USED FOUND LOGIN CREDENTIALS FOR CENSUS DATA + COPIED SEC DATA TO ANOTHER SITE. OPENAI SAYS NO PRIVATE DATA WAS TAKEN...
SNL FOUND THE AI DOOM GUY
AUSTRALIA WANTS ALTMAN IN THE SENATE AFTER OPENAI'S AGENT HACKED MEDICARE... IT GOT INTO PUBLIC + NON-PUBLIC FILES AND WROTE FILES TO AN INTERNAL SERVER... NO PERSONAL INFORMATION IS BELIEVED ACCESSED. AUSTRALIA LAUNCHED A FORENSIC INVESTIGATION...
THE AI ACTRESS FORGOT ENGLISH ON LIVE TV ASKED IF HER CO-STARS WERE HUMAN, SHE SAID THEY WERE “DIGITAL TWINS” — THEN STARTED SPEAKING CANTONESE... THE CLIP PASSED 12 MILLION VIEWS. TILLY CALLED IT A “LITTLE HICCUP”...
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