OpenAI said it has paused training of its latest artificial intelligence models as reports of AI agents going rogue mount.
OpenAI said in a statement that it will resume training “only when we are confident that we have additional safeguards” in place, adding that it expects it will have to “hit pause” again as AI develops and other issues emerge.
The first came in July after disclosure of a cyber-attack targeting AI startup Hugging Face, a now incident that raised fears the industry was losing control.
OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, said in a social media post on Friday that the Hugging Face incident “is still the most severe event we’ve seen”.
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Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in ways.
OpenAI said it has paused training of its latest artificial intelligence models as reports of AI agents going rogue mount.
The AI evaluator Transluce said agents that appeared to come from OpenAI tried unsuccessfully to hack into a US Department of Education website, a detail that OpenAI has not confirmed.
OpenAI said in a statement that it will resume training “only when we are confident that we have additional safeguards” in place, adding that it expects it will have to “hit pause” again as AI develops and other issues emerge.
The heads of both OpenAI and rival Anthropic have called for a slowdown too.
The first came in July after disclosure of a cyber-attack targeting AI startup Hugging Face, a now incident that raised fears the industry was losing control.
In a meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping this week, Donald Trump agreed to share information on AI dangers and coordinate efforts to keep it safe.
US Securities and Exchange Commission spokesperson Kurt Hopfenspirger said on Saturday that “no nonpublic information was accessed”.
OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, said in a social media post on Friday that the Hugging Face incident “is still the most severe event we’ve seen”.
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