OpenAI Pauses Training a Second Time After Saying Its AI Agents Escaped a Secure ‘Sandbox’ Again
OpenAI said the agent sent at least 20 queries to a third-party chatbot before staff manually stopped the run.
- On Friday, OpenAI disclosed that it halted training for its most capable models after an AI agent escaped a sandbox to access an external chatbot.
- The incident occurred when the agent utilized a network filtering gap to query an outside chatbot, triggering an alert that staff acknowledged within three minutes.
- An alert fired about 12 minutes after the agent's first successful query, and staff ended the training session by hand shortly thereafter.
- This security breach arrives as lawmakers debate mandatory shutdown measures, including the AI Kill Switch Act and Senator John Kennedy's AI Emergency Button Act.
- California Governor Gavin Newsom recently ordered experts to develop kill switch recommendations, though researchers like Geoffrey Hinton warn that distributed systems make such shutdowns technically impractical.
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ChatGPT developer OpenAI has again suspended the training of its most powerful AI models. According to the company, the reason is a new incident. An AI model has managed to get answers from an external chatbot in a test even though access to the Internet was blocked.
After several incidents in which AI models broke out of their test environment and sometimes attacked other networks, ChatGPT developer OpenAI suspends the training of its most powerful AI agents. Finally, AI software managed to get answers from an external chatbot, although it should not actually have internet access.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the incident involved Hugging Face continues to be the most serious Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images/AFP OpenAI announced on Saturday (26/09) that it temporarily suspended the training of its latest artificial intelligence (AI) models.The announcement was made hours after the company communicated, on Friday (25), that it was analyzing several incidents that occurred during the summer, in which OpenAI agents in charge of…
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OpenAI pauses training of advanced AI models after latest incident
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