OpenAI Finds Evidence It Failed to Monitor Other A.I. Agents ⇥ reuters.com

Deepa Seetharaman and Raphael Satter, Reuters:

OpenAI has discovered other instances in which autonomous agents have escaped ​containment as the company expands its investigation of the hacking incident at tech firm Hugging Face that drew global attention this month, two people familiar with the matter said on Friday.

Not satisfied with just a couple of agents being left unattended and spiralling into security nightmares, OpenAI will have more to acknowledge. Stay tuned, I guess, for the company’s full report.

“We have a whole industry where the people designing, developing and putting out these tools aren’t keeping up themselves to responsibly develop these things and keep them ​safe,” said Maurice Chiodo, a mathematician who works at Cambridge University’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.

Extraordinary — and the world is at the mercy of U.S. regulators who are so paralyzed by competition with China they are reluctant to do anything that would slow these companies down.