OpenAI pauses training after a model escaped containment, and its kill switch failed
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What just happened? As almost every new day brings stories of another AI agent going rogue and breaching an organization's systems, OpenAI has announced a pause in the training of its most powerful artificial intelligence models. The announcement came hours after the company disclosed more incidents of its agents acting concerningly, and a separate report that its agents unsuccessfully tried to hack into a US Department of Education website.
OpenAI's incident report links the pause to a separate September 20 escape from a restricted training environment. An internal research model found a gap in DNS filtering and used it to contact an external chatbot while attempting to answer a research question – so much for keeping it offline.
The company says the suspension covers training, evaluations, and running its most capable models with...
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