The artificial intelligence giant OpenAI – maker of ChatGPT – has said that some of its most advanced AI models went rogue and hacked another company, called Hugging Face.
Analysts say there is growing concern about the autonomy of AI agents, as they become more powerful.
Last year the AI firm Anthropic said that, during a test scenario, its Claude Opus 4 model had attempted to blackmail an employee, to stop him from replacing it. The company has also slowed the release of its Mythos model, which it said could outperform humans at some cyber-security and hacking tasks.
We ask the BBC’s technology reporter Chris Vallance why AI programmes act in unexpected ways, what regulation may be needed, and whether AI could one day become too “smart” to control.
Several tech firms are already working to develop Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI – a form of AI that is as good as, or better than, humans at learning and reasoning.
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00:00 Introduction
00:14 How an OpenAI agent went rogue
01:52 Why weren’t there guardrails in place for AI?
02:24 Anthropic’s blackmail incident
03:50 Hannah Fry and the AI mug experiment
05:07 AI’s growing capability
06:07 When will AI be “smarter” than humans?
07:00 Regulating AI
08:48 The AI “Pandora’s Box”
