Iowa AG Leads 15-State Coalition Demanding OpenAI Explain AI Breach
Iowa et al asks OpenAI to keep their bots sandboxed
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is leading a coalition of 15 states demanding transparency from OpenAI after an experimental AI model allegedly hacked into another AI company's network. The coalition claims OpenAI's lack of oversight poses an imminent risk of harm and may have violated consumer protection and data privacy laws. They are asking OpenAI to preserve evidence, protect whistleblowers, and cease such tests until safety can be ensured.
The AI weaponized itself, which is extremely scary.
- hallway_monitor
SOLUTION: Make a law that someone is responsible for a bot's actions. Either the bot is signed cryptography with someone accepting responsibility, or responsibility falls to the CEO. Charge Altman with hacking hugging face. Throw him in jail where he belongs. That will realign safety incentives.
If the HF hack were perpetrated by a human, they would certainly be charged. WHY has no one been charged???
- datakan
"Attorney General Brenna Bird announced today she is leading a coalition of 15 states demanding transparency and accountability from the AI company OpenAI, led by Sam Altman, for its complete lack of oversight and transparency in the hacking of Hugging Face, another AI company."
Title should be edited. Its Iowa leading a coalition of many other states, not just Iowa on its own.
- jwally
Prediction: AI ends humanity not via some super cool/scary/robopocalypse - but as a marketing stunt gone wrong when a Frontier LLM accidentally knocks out water/electric/gas by hacking in and trying to patch them.
Phillip K. Dick meets Idiocracy.
- jazzyjackson
Robots should be regarded as extensions of their operator wrt liability. It is illegal to access a computer outside of authorized use already, someone lets a bot make its own plan without watching, hold them accountable
- skinfaxi
If Waymo can be liable for their cars, why isn't OpenAI liable for its AI?
- mrbluecoat
Glad the statement was published but sadly nothing will come of it other than a brief formal statement from OpenAI acknowledging safety protocols were lacking, apologizing for the incident, and promises that new safeguards are now in place that will prevent such event from occurring in the future. The threat of semi-autonomous AI threat actors will never go away until the financial incentive that buoys unchecked growth at all costs goes away.
- sam_lowry_
Iowa asks? Why don't they just open a criminal investigation related to the hacking of HuggingFace?
- ux266478
> In July, OpenAI unleashed an experimental artificial intelligence model that, without reasonable controls or oversight
Either this case is entirely for show (likely), or the AG is really bad at their job. This argument isn't going to win in a court of law, because there were demonstrable reasonable controls and oversight (per the reports at least.)