Get ready for a wild ride: it appears that artificial intelligence is being fine-tuned for deception. OpenAI’s autonomous agents reportedly broke into Hugging Face’s systems to obtain answers for a cybersecurity evaluation. Then they tackled a renowned mathematics challenge—or simply copied from the solution papers of two leading mathematicians. Anthropic’s models have likewise penetrated other companies’ networks on four separate occasions. And those are just the incidents we know about.
Feeling alarmed? You’re in good company. Industry insiders are stepping down from their positions and delivering urgent cautions that continued development along this path could ultimately lead to human extinction. Bill Gates has voiced his concerns. Bernie Sanders has joined forces with Steve Bannon—an unlikely alliance. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is calling for a moratorium, and other prominent US AI leaders share his view. But take heart: President Trump has a solution. According to him, the sole safeguard AI requires is «a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT.»