Tag: hacks
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Turning off the refrigeration in France and the Netherlands
Earlier this week, a mass hack of refrigeration systems at an estimated 700 supermarkets throughout France caused them to suddenly malfunction, causing spoilage of untold tons of perishables and, in some cases, fires. As is now the norm, basic cybersecurity would have prevented it. Here in the Netherlands, there was a similar grocery store hack.…
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Maybe rouge AI just needs better security practices from humans
According to the cybersecurity professionals CSO spoke with, one of the biggest cybersecurity failures by the frontier AI labs is the lack of implementation of tried-and-true containment practices that stretch back to the 1990s, such as setting up secure sandboxes that would effectively bar agents from escaping their test environments. These are things that we’ve…
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Those rascally AIs: maybe there just weren’t any security controls.
AI alignment isn’t really the problem here: labs just need better infrastructure. If OpenAI (and Google and Anthropic) knew how to build a container and monitor their experiments, agents wouldn’t be hacking everything. And, By George, we _do know how_to make sandboxes that work, so the AI labs need to up their game and build…
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