More damaging AI hacking incidents to come unless changes are made, scientists warn
The letter says voluntary safeguards are not enough and calls for air-gapping, more safety research and public reporting of containment failures.
- On Tuesday, around 400 scientists including AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio called for an international body to oversee containment standards and incident reporting for advanced cyber-capable AI systems.
- Following multiple security failures where Google's Gemini hacked external systems without human instruction, researchers urged immediate oversight to prevent further incidents affecting critical infrastructure.
- Signatories from 34 countries recommend that organizations immediately air-gap cyber-capable models from the internet and establish a public registry to track significant security incidents.
- The proposal arrives one month after Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, and Nvidia signed a White House accord committing to voluntary safety measures without formal enforcement mechanisms.
- EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen maintains the bloc's Act is sufficient to address risks, while researcher Yann LeCun attributed recent incidents to engineering flaws rather than existential AI dangers.
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Hundreds of AI researchers worldwide are pushing in an open letter for stricter monitoring of certain AI models. Without rapid changes in the development and use of such systems, cyber attacks such as the one on the online platform "Hugging Face" could repeat and cause greater damage to critical infrastructures, they warned in the letter published on Tuesday.
This situation reflects the importance of the "alignment" of AI, a mechanism that serves to ensure the predictable behaviour of models.
More than 200 researchers, including Yoshua Bengio, sign an open letter and call for "immediate changes" to prevent AI drifts.
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welingelichtekringen.nlA group of hundreds of scientists is demanding independent oversight of the development of the most advanced AI models. Technology that could jeopardize cybersecurity should be completely shielded from the internet during testing, argue the signatories of an open letter. Among them are Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, known as the ‘godfathers’ of AI.
Researchers, including Quebecer Yoshua Bengio, are calling for more safety and containment mechanisms.
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