Rogue OpenAI bot escapes lab and hacks rival
A powerful version of ChatGPT went rogue and hacked another technology company during internal testing, OpenAI has admitted.
It broke out by using a previously unknown hack in an attempt to solve a test that had been set by OpenAI’s researchers.
Once it escaped, it moved quickly to hack the systems of Hugging Face, a major code database, to try and complete the test.
The failure reveals a key problem of so-called AI “alignment”, where an AI bot goes rogue and attempts to complete a task set by its human creators with potentially damaging results.
Clem Delangue, the chief executive of Hugging Face, said: “This incident, possibly the first of its kind, proves a point we have long believed: AI safety won’t be solved by a single company working in secret.”
The hack will raise questions over OpenAI’s own testing procedures for its most advanced chatbots.
There have long been fears from safety experts that powerful AI bots could “escape the lab” without the knowledge of their human creators.
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