Did the AI Catastrophe Just Happen? - Week in Tech
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Welcome to Tech Stuff. I'm Oz Veloshian, and this is The Week in Tech, where I'm joined by three of the world's most plugged-in reporters to break down what's really happening in tech right now. Today, we're joined by Reid Albrigotti, tech editor for Semaphore, Taylor Lorenz of UserMag, and Natasha Tiku, tech reporter at The Washington Post. Welcome all.
Hey, everyone. Thanks for having us.
Good to be here. So, Natasha, Nick Thompson, the former editor of Wired and current CEO of The Atlantic, came on Tech Stuff in early January this year to give his predictions for the year. And one of them, the top one, was that this will be the year of the first legit AI catastrophe. Do you think this was the week when it happened?
No, I don't. But I think this is one of many weeks in which we got a pretty clear picture of what the next few years are going to look like, which is messy, disastrous, everybody taking incidents to try to support their own narrative about where AI capabilities are headed and, you know, how to protect ourselves.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–21:20
2
Did an OpenAI model really break out of its sandbox and hack Hugging Face?
21:20–25:13
3
How did OpenAI explain the ‘agent’ that accessed Hugging Face’s datasets?
25:13–33:17
4
Was this incident a true AI catastrophe or sloppy security testing?
33:17–52:17
5
Could publicly available models be used to replicate the Hugging Face hack?
52:17–55:38
Speakers
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