[Linkpost] Thoughts on the Recent OpenAI Hack

Linkpost from my blog (meant for a bit more general audience than LW)In a cybersecurity evaluation, OpenAI’s models, apparently autonomously and without any direct human direction, escaped their sandbox and successfully hacked a third-party tech company (HuggingFace, valued at >$4.5 billion).The process involved leveraging a zero-day exploit to escape their sandbox, moving laterally across different OpenAI servers until they found a node with internet access, searching the internet and determini...