News Summary

• Last week, OpenAI announced that two of its models had hacked into another AI company's servers, unbeknownst to it.
• It's tempting to shrug this off as a weird, one-off event that sounds more or less like the plot of a handful of 90s sci-fi films with beefcake stars.
• But, like Sarah Connor's pleas, it's not crazy to take this seriously.
• The government has commissioned CSIRO to actually test ways to make sure that AI acts in ways that humans want.