… Peter Wallich, a former UK AI Security Institute official, said the incident illustrated the limits of relying on sandboxing agents and defensive security measures alone: “Two multibillion dollar companies just tried this approach and — self-evidently, based on their own reporting — failed.” One of… …
… The disclosure follows a more granular account from Hugging Face, which said the agent had “abused a public code-evaluation harness hosted by a user of a third-party infrastructure provider.” The additional details are likely to deepen unease over what many experts already view as an unprecedented … …
… The incidents set off alarm bells among AI safety researchers, many of whom saw them as precisely the kind of failure they had been warning about for years. …
… The discoveries add to a growing list of previously unknown incidents that have alarmed AI safety experts and intensified pressure for greater oversight of frontier systems. …
… These unsettling incidents have set off alarms in and around the AI industry. There’s long been a vocal resistance to the technology, fueled by fears of job displacement, climate impact, and unconstrained development absent of safety guardrails. …
… They would also have to report safety incidents, with violations of emergency shutdown orders reaching up to $20 million per day. …
… But Musk’s typical bullishness seemed to be absent from the call, as the occasional trillionaire sought to temper expectations about the program’s future. “We’re going as fast as humanly possible in scaling Robotaxi,” Musk said, “while trying to ensure that we do not harm anyone at all and ideally … …
… This isn’t even the first awkward security incident around Mythos. …
… Incident reports from one victim suggest the restrictive safety rails intended to stop nefarious use of AI models also limits their use as defensive tools.
… Last year, Musk appeared virtually at a far-right rally in London, saying the UK needs “revolutionary government change.” He’s previously expressed fears that white people will go “extinct.” In a statement on X, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned the violence in Belfast and acknowledged the r…