The Globe and Mail reports in its Wednesday, Sept. 30, edition that months before OpenAI's artificial intelligence went rogue, two employees alerted executives about significant risks. A New York Times dispatch to The Globe reports that their warnings were ignored. Abundant Security's Joshua Saxe says, "OpenAI's security seems to be about what you'd expect from a research lab that scaled at a blistering pace over four years and focused more on beating its competitors than securing its infrastructure."
Google, Meta and Anthropic have also reported AI security incidents where their technology has gone rogue.
But OpenAI's handling of security is under particular scrutiny because its AI models have been involved in the biggest known number of instances of what it has called "concerning" behaviour -- and which experts have said were the most troubling.
A former OpenAI employee says, "In some sense, this is an OpenAI-specific problem, in that it seems like they had very bad security, and also sloppy model training practices that led to the models having this sort of propensity."
In response, OpenAI executives told the employees that the tests needed to move forward as quickly as possible to release the AI models on time.
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