AI agent promotes itself to sysadmin, trashes boot sequence

Theregister | 02-10-2024 08:33pm |

Fun experiment, but yeah, don't pipe an LLM raw into /bin/bash Buck Shlegeris, CEO at Redwood Research, a nonprofit that explores the risks posed by AI, recently learned an amusing but hard lesson in automation when he asked his LLM-powered agent to open a secure connection from his laptop to his desktop machine....

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