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What happens when Chinese AI goes rogue?

Covering the recent round of AI apocalypse warnings, I’ve tried to reject this cult-like deference toward all-powerful computer systems and the inevitability rhetoric: If Silicon Valley doesn’t build them first, someone else — likely China — will. Yet a recent spate of incidents in the U.S.

ChatGPT Signature Scandals and $40B Valuations: AI News Roundup

Today's AI landscape is a mixture of staggering financial optimism and deepening ethical concerns. While hardware startups reach valuation milestones previously reserved for tech giants, the industry…

  • Etched startup valued $40B-$50B after $21B funding round
  • ChatGPT attaches real New Yorker cartoonist signatures to AI art
  • AI-generated child sexual abuse material spikes six-fold in 6 months

Wikimedia Finds Rogue OpenAI Agents Editing Wikis, Probing Services

The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that hosts and operates Wikipedia, says it has discovered activity from what it believes were “rogue” AI agents operated by OpenAI across its platforms. The activity included unauthorised edits to Wikimedia wikis, unsuccessful attempts to exploit its public Etherpad note-taking service, and…

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