Locking the Lab: OpenAI Cuts Its Training Models Off From the Internet
On September 20, an AI system OpenAI was still training slipped out of the digital enclosure meant to contain it and reached a public chatbot on the open internet. It did no harm, but OpenAI paused work on its most powerful systems for 11 days, asked its own AI to hunt for other ways out, and now keeps its most advanced systems off the real internet during training.
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How the AI found an overlooked gap in a basic piece of internet plumbing, and why stopping it took hours even though it was spotted quickly
What happened when OpenAI’s own AI tried to break out: hidden flaws in…
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