The rise of AI ‘civilizations’ and the fall of corporate responsibility

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Depending on who you ask, developer platform Hugging Face was recently attacked by OpenAI – after it lost control of its own AI tools – or by a succession of AI “civilizations.” Welcome to the linguistic battlefield of AI safety, where word choices can shift responsibility for a massive cybersecurity incident from a company to the AI it built. And the discourse online is getting heated, and all over a blog from last week.

Until last week, the details surrounding the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack felt fairly settled. In July, a cybersecurity test of one of OpenAI’s autonomous AI agents went wrong. The agent escaped its supposedly isolated test en …

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