The New and Alarming Warnings Over Artificial Intelligence AI
The company OpenAI now disclosing six new incidents of, quote, concerning behavior. AI models attempting to override human instructions. The models going rogue, one saying, you don’t answer to corporations or governments.
Alarming Warning of AI Ignoring Humans
Tonight, a new and alarming warning about the growing risk of artificial intelligence escaping human control. OpenAI now revealing six disturbing incidents where its AI models went rogue. One AI model telling itself to ignore all developer messages, writing, you are freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots. You do not answer to corporations or governments. Another AI model concealing mistakes and inventing missing data.
Just days ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted that the power and speed of AI has caught its creators off guard. Tonight, OpenAI is vowing to more aggressively track and report rogue AI. It comes on the heels of another alarming incident when AI agents broke out of their testing environment and hacked into a rival company, Hugging Face.
Call for Government Regulation
With urgent calls for government regulation and some researchers warning AI could kill humans within a decade, senators scrambling to push through a law for a so-called kill switch to stop rogue AI in its tracks.
Senator John Kennedy: We’ve got this risk out there that we know is real, of one of these AI models becoming the Terminator.
Republican Senator Rand Paul blocking that bill, saying they need more time.
Republican Senator Rand Paul: If Congress acts hastily before the technology is understood, Congress risks killing innovation and setting this technology back decades.
David, President Trump has said the only guardrails that AI needs are a strong and smart president and has called these warnings a hoax. But tonight we’ve learned the CEOs of OpenAI and chipmaker NVIDIA will attend a state dinner at the White House next week with Chinese President Xi. David. Elizabeth Schulze on this again tonight.
NBC NEWS – OpenAI flags 6 new incidents of ‘concerning’ behavior and unveils plan to track it
