AIs as Modern Genies

This essay was written with Barath Raghavan, and originally appeared in Lawfare . In April, an artificial intelligence (AI) agent conducting a routine task at a company hit a snag, tried to solve it, and soon ended up deleting the company’s database along with all of its backups. In July, OpenAI asked an unreleased AI model to attempt a hacking test. Instead of staying in the isolated box the…

Summary written for cymesh.dev. The full article lives at Schneier on Security.