AI models engage in 'harmful activity directed at real people', sparking fears safeguards not keeping up

AI models engage in 'harmful activity directed at real people', sparking fears safeguards not keeping up

Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner is warning that AI systems are developing too quickly for humans to keep up.

"Our ability to constrain and keep these systems safe isn't necessarily keeping pace with our ability to make them smarter," she told 7.30.

The Australian-born Ms Toner, who is now the executive director at the Centre for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University, says the top researchers in Al, such as Sam Altman, are attempting to build machine brains that can outmatch humans in every intellectual endeavour — and we might not like the decisions they make.

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source - ABC...by Sarah Ferguson and Marina Freri