Are You Ready for the “Rogue AI” Psy-Op?
Are You Ready for the “Rogue AI” Psy-Op? Kit Knightly The AIs are breaking free, that’s the story. It started two weeks ago, when OpenAI reported one of their “agents” had escaped its testing area and got loose on the internet to launch an “unprecedented cyber attack” . This was clearly meant to be scarier than the public response indicated, because a few days later OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was on the Invest like the Best podcast , asking why it didn’t cause more panic: “I’ve been a little surprised that more people don’t feel it so viscerally” In one of the most hilariously obvious propaganda manoeuvres of the year, just the day after Altman said that, CNN headlined: The OpenAI lab leak was more extensive than we thought “That thing you weren’t scared of? Well it was even SCARIER than we said it was! Are you scared now?” We weren’t. But the lack of public panic didn’t stop another AI going rogue a few days later, Anthropic’s Claude model this time. And then OpenAI reporting two fu...
