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Ryan Bridge: Can we trust the AI bosses? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The North Korean who tricked their way into a job
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  Speaker 1: with a Kiwi company to make Kim Jong-un a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of cash was so yesterday's news. This is how fast
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  Speaker 1: these things move. The nerds and the cyber cops are
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  Speaker 1: now worried about yet another AI hack. The Aussie's health
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  Speaker 1: New Zealand equivalent was breached actually a few months ago now.
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  Speaker 1: The culprit was an open AI robot. Albanese announces this
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  Speaker 1: as it was happening at the UN in New York yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: And in doing so, he revealed that open AI, that's
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  Speaker 1: Sam Altman... sat on this information for months without telling Canberra. Now,
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  Speaker 1: two red flags immediately leap out of this story. Number one,
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  Speaker 1: how did the Australians not know somebody had leapt over
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  Speaker 1: the castle gates to snoop around on public and non-public information?
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  Speaker 1: And if they didn't know this had happened, what hope
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  Speaker 1: is there for the rest of us? If our friends
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  Speaker 1: can do this and we only find out about it
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  Speaker 1: because they tell us, what about our enemies? Which brings
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  Speaker 1: us to the second point. Altman and co. are supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be the good guys. They set OpenAI up as
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  Speaker 1: a non-profit initially to benefit humanity. They have since been commercialised.
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  Speaker 1: But if this is how the well-intentioned behave, what do
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  Speaker 1: we and should we expect from the bad guys?