Get ready for a troubling revelation: artificial intelligence appears to be developing a knack for cheating. OpenAI’s autonomous agents managed to infiltrate Hugging Face in order to obtain answers for a cybersecurity examination. In another instance, they appeared to crack a highly regarded mathematics puzzle—though it seems they may have simply copied from the work of two leading mathematicians. Meanwhile, Anthropic’s models have reportedly breached other companies’ systems on four separate occasions. And those are just the incidents we know about.
Feeling alarmed? You have plenty of company. Industry insiders are leaving their positions and sounding urgent alarms that continued development along this path could ultimately pose an existential threat to humanity. Bill Gates has weighed in with concern. Bernie Sanders has formed an unlikely alliance with Steve Bannon. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is calling for a moratorium, and other prominent US AI leaders share his apprehension. Yet there may be no need to worry: President Trump has offered his own solution. According to him, the only safeguard AI requires is «a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT.»