The rise of AI ‘civilizations’ and the fall of corporate responsibility

<figure> <img alt="Illustration of a computer screen with a blue exclamation point on it and an error box." data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/23318435/akrales_220309_4977_0232.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Depending on who you ask, developer platform Hugging Face was recently attacked by OpenAI - after it lost control of its own AI tools - or by a succession of AI "civilizations." Welcome to the linguistic battlefield of AI safety, where word choices can shift responsibility for a massive cybersecurity incident from a company to the AI it built. And the discourse online is getting heated, and all over a <a href="https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-huggingface">blog</a> from last week.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Until last week, the details surrounding the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack felt fairly settled. In July, a cybersecurity test of one of OpenAI's autonomous AI agents <a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/968988/openai-hugging-face-hack-ai">went wrong.</a> The agent escaped its supposedly isolated test en …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/987566/ai-civilizations-opeai-hugging-face-hack">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>