Experts in artificial intelligence delivered a sobering message to California legislators Wednesday: The technology is advancing at a rapid pace and the threats posed by it taking rogue actions in the future are deeply concerning.
A key driver of that worry can be traced back to the summer when a program being researched by industry leader OpenAI was able to autonomously access the internet — when it was not supposed to — and break into internal systems for a company called Hugging Face.
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Jennifer King, a privacy and data fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, sees a connection between the concerns expressed at the hearing and what she said is a Silicon Valley start-up culture that does not reward safety.
“This is just really kind of a foreign language, I think, to most companies that are building this technology,” King said. “That’s a really important thing to consider as we think about options for how we potentially regulate this space.”
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