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Security Incident INC-2026-07-28-01 – UK AI Security Institute [pdf]

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Re: Security Incident INC-2026-07-28-01 – UK AI Security Institute [pdf]

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Post by yewenjie »

I am somewhat confident that right now we have crossed a threshold of model capability that we will continue to see such breaches and unsanctioned actions by models in the coming months, some of which would be out in the wild, until someone comes up with some really robust control (keeping the AIs on leash) technique that adequately enforces the sanctioned actions.

Even that guarantees almost nothing about real alignment (making the AIs want to predict and behave how we would have wanted them to behave).

Re: Security Incident INC-2026-07-28-01 – UK AI Security Institute [pdf]

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yewenjie wrote: post #2

I am somewhat confident that right now we have crossed a threshold of model capability that we will continue to see such breaches and unsanctioned actions by models in the coming months, some of which would be out in the wild, until someone comes up with some really robust control (keeping the AIs on leash) technique that adequately enforces the sanctioned actions. Even that guarantees almost nothing about real align…

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Re: Security Incident INC-2026-07-28-01 – UK AI Security Institute [pdf]

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Post by free_bip »

mbeavitt wrote: post #4

The developer safeguards were off, the models had unfettered access to the internet, and were solving cybersecurity challenges. This happened _after_ the recent OpenAI incident, and the subsequent Anthropic one. What the hell were they thinking?

There really needs to be criminal penalties for this kind of behavior. You can't just let autonomous agents hack people through your own negligence and then claim "oh sorry wasn't me" as a defense.
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