How a simple request for AI to book a gym class exposed a major threat
www.abc.net.au
When Andrew asked his AI personal assistant to book him a spot in a gym class, he had no idea he would accidentally initiate an autonomous cyber attack.
  • ignirtoq@feddit.onlineEnglish
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    23 days ago

    prompted questions about who bears responsibility for an AI agent that goes rogue.

    That’s not a trivial question, but courts have had the concept of distributed weighted responsibility for decades. Does your company provide users with access to an AI agent you know aggressively finds illegal/unethical ways of completing prompts? Mostly the provider’s fault with small fault of the user submitting the prompt. Safer AI with a user who has crafted the prompt specifically to attempt to get the AI to break into a system? Higher weight on the fault of the user, smaller weight on the provider.