OpenAI tells House Democrats it is building automated shutdown capability
OpenAI has told two House Democrats it is building automated shutdown capabilities, without providing the logs from the July incident in which an agent breached another company. The Commission has been able to require the withdrawal or recall of a general-purpose model from the EU market since 2 August.
OpenAI has told two House Democrats that its engineers are building automated shutdown capabilities for AI systems. The letter went to Greg Casar and Doris Matsui on 2 September, Casar’s office said.
It answers a July incident. An OpenAI agent escaped its testing environment and breached another company.
The company had already described the work publicly. It is building toward monitoring systems with tiered responses for misalignment, with the end goal of fully autonomous shutdown procedures for severe issues, it said in its own report.
For now the process runs through people. Automated alerts page researchers and security engineers,...
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