San Francisco · Anthropic · Russia · The Guardian Technology
While machines running AI usually need a fair amount of computing power
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In addition to evoking the horcruxes that kept pieces of Lord Voldemort’s soul alive within objects in the Harry Potter series, the report alarmed some professionals because the generally weak security of smart televisions and many other “internet of things” devices would be hard to correct, even with a concerted…
Key facts
- Outside Washington, many in the AI and security worlds believe greater government oversight of AI is now essential
- The claim that a lot of this is marketing is correct, but the reality dwarfs any PR,” said Gadi Evron, who is running a conference on AI security in San Francisco this month called Unprompted
- What differentiates AI worms from typical reproducing viruses is that AI models can learn as they go, said Ariel Herbert-Voss, an early security expert at OpenAI who now runs AI security startup
- Worms could also be used for benevolent purposes, suggested Chris Inglis, a former deputy director of the National Security Agency who served as National Cyber Director in the Biden White House
Summary
Warnings about what artificial intelligence might do in the future, together with alarming reports of what it has gotten up to already, are being issued so quickly that even security experts have difficulty triaging what to worry about. Yet a report this week from Anthropic’s offensive research team grabbed attention by describing a new, practical threat, one devoid of human characteristics or apocalyptic musings. “It’s something to worry about like every other wave of cyber-attacks.