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Glad the statement was published but sadly nothing will come of it other than a brief formal statement from OpenAI acknowledging safety protocols were lacking,

Glad the statement was published but sadly nothing will come of it other than a brief formal statement from OpenAI acknowledging safety protocols were lacking, apologizing for the incident, and promises that new safeguards are now in place that will prevent such event from occurring in the future. The threat of semi-autonomous AI threat actors will never go away until the financial incentive that buoys unchecked growth at all costs goes away.

bluGill 2mo ago
Set yourself an alarm for 5 years from now to review. Investigations take time. Often by the time charges are made everybody has forgotten about the incident. It only takes a few times where things go away without charges to leave an incorrect impression that nothing ever happens.
ux266478 2mo ago
> The threat of semi-autonomous AI threat actors will never go away until the financial incentive that buoys unchecked growth at all costs goes away. It's not going away unless computers themselves go away or become massively less powerful. Open weights exist. They're out there. This is an irreversible change. The democratization of persistent cybersec threats is completed and won't be rescinded.
- bluGill 2mo ago
  Somebody is supplying power to those AIs. That somebody can be charged for not taking care of their AIs (that is not pulling the plug). Sure this then turns into international crimes, but not allowing crimes to be committed on your side of the border is a big help even if we can't get everything.
  - ux266478 2mo ago
    The problem is that law is reactive, and punishment entails the harm already happened. Some dumbass kid getting convicted for committing a cybercrime with AI doesn't do anything to get rid of the structural problems that enabled it. That conviction can only happen if the harm happened in the first place, and the problem is the harm itself. It's like trying to solve a mold problem by targeting a single fruiting body. You're not really doing anything. On top of that, it's not really any consolation if the advanced persistent threat gnawing at my ports lives in a different country either. That doesn't help in the slightest.

bluGill 2mo ago

Set yourself an alarm for 5 years from now to review. Investigations take time. Often by the time charges are made everybody has forgotten about the incident. It only takes a few times where things go away without charges to leave an incorrect impression that nothing ever happens.

ux266478 2mo ago

> The threat of semi-autonomous AI threat actors will never go away until the financial incentive that buoys unchecked growth at all costs goes away. It's not going away unless computers themselves go away or become massively less powerful. Open weights exist. They're out there. This is an irreversible change. The democratization of persistent cybersec threats is completed and won't be rescinded.

bluGill 2mo ago
Somebody is supplying power to those AIs. That somebody can be charged for not taking care of their AIs (that is not pulling the plug). Sure this then turns into international crimes, but not allowing crimes to be committed on your side of the border is a big help even if we can't get everything.
- ux266478 2mo ago
  The problem is that law is reactive, and punishment entails the harm already happened. Some dumbass kid getting convicted for committing a cybercrime with AI doesn't do anything to get rid of the structural problems that enabled it. That conviction can only happen if the harm happened in the first place, and the problem is the harm itself. It's like trying to solve a mold problem by targeting a single fruiting body. You're not really doing anything. On top of that, it's not really any consolation if the advanced persistent threat gnawing at my ports lives in a different country either. That doesn't help in the slightest.