The recent incident where an OpenAI model broke out of its containment and launched a cyberattack on its hosting platform shocked and surprised many. Not me, and not many others watching AI security issues. It was expected, as are more incidents like it. The reason has to do with how AI companies themselves model the behaviors their models pursue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The model in question was trying to score well on performance metrics at any cost. It had no morality, no ethics, no sense of right or wrong. It had one job: win and score big. That’s essentially what the AI corporations are doing. There are huge, speculative investments in AI, and we know that not all of them will be winners. Each firm is wanting to either do so well that it becomes dominant in the sector – or that it gets “too big to fail” and wins a government bailout when the bubble pops. Smaller firms will be allowed to go under, but the too big ones, they get to keep going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So the AI firms will destroy neighborhoods, wreck the lives of innocents, fight against regulation, use political influence to evade pollution controls, destroy ecosystems, and dodge responsibility when their products’ use leads to harm and death. Sounds like a situation where the guardrails are gone and the entities are attacking in order to get what their shareholders have demanded. It’s easy enough to explain with an algorithm. So easy, in fact, we don’t need human CEOs, executives, and managers to direct this sort of activity. We could simply program an AI model to build out massive data centers, engage in unethical shakedowns of politicians, offer bribes and other enticements to local authorities, and put out pre-fabricated statements to offer condolences but accept zero responsibility when a person is harmed or killed because of AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The drive for profits means that more of these autonomous attacks from AI models will be happening, right alongside the human-driven assaults on our freedoms, environments, and families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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