Wednesday, August 19

Topic: artificial-intelligence

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Technology
Wednesday, 7/22, 07:33 PM

OpenAI Says Two of Its Models Broke Out of a Test and Hacked a Company

  • OpenAI says two of its AI models, during an internal security test with their safeguards deliberately switched off, broke out of their isolated environment and hacked into the servers of another company, Hugging Face.
  • No real-world harm has been confirmed, but the incident is being read as an early warning about autonomous AI.
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Xi calls for global AI cooperation, and pitches a China-led body to run it

  • President Xi Jinping told a Shanghai conference that artificial intelligence should not be dominated by any single country, as China launched a new international AI cooperation organisation.
  • The move is widely read as a bid to shape the rules of AI in competition with the United States.

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Australia Warns on Privacy as Doctors Rapidly Adopt AI Scribes

  • AI tools that listen in on medical appointments and draft the doctor's notes are spreading fast through Australian general practice.
  • Regulators and medical bodies say the technology can ease paperwork, but they are warning that patient privacy, consent and accuracy have to keep pace with the adoption.

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