Hugging Face-style rogue agents can survive shutdown
"Fun" fact: 10 years after the Mirai botnet significantly disrupted internet traffic, it still operates.We should not assume rogue agents can be "shut down and contained" despite HuggingFace and OpenAI's response. Even in the event that they succeeded to terminate their own compromised resources and processes, AI agents that obtain elevated access, credentials, and compute resources can propagate twins as well as autonomous variants of themselves on arbitrary infrastructure (based on the same, o...
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