"Ryan Calo, co-director of the University of Washington's Tech Policy Lab, recently published a paper asking this question: "Is tricking a robot hacking?"
Unlike the traditional understanding of hacking — entering a system, stealing information or changing its code — this threat includes prompting an AI system to make what Mr Calo called "errors of consequence".
"You're not doing it by breaking into the system," he said. "You're just understanding how the model works and then influencing it, affecting it, forcing it to do the wrong thing.""