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How Do You Defend Against AI That Can Hack?

why guardrails designed to stop AI-powered attackers can also prevent security teams from doing their jobs

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U.S. AI Execs Warn as China’s AI Push Grows, Substack Adds AI Detection Tool | Diet TBPN

One probable outcome of an openweight model dominant world is full AI communism, which is precisely what China proposes rather than a market product. AI is a public good, which will ultimately be provided by the state as a kind of digital public infrastructure.

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The more skeptical folks on the timeline are pointing to uh you know ideas such as uh maybe the compute was smuggled in to China against chip controls. Maybe the data was excfiltrated from frontier lab APIs routed through wrapper companies. Maybe this is a distillation attack. Um the open-source strategy is a deliberate attempt to destroy American companies. It's geopolitical warfare. It's the AI cold war.

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Open weight models are ideal for users who want unfettered access to systems they control. Uh, but they're also ideal for hackers who want to run them in the shadows.

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White House’s export limits on Anthropic linked to concerns about Chinese access

Another way to look at this is that Anthropic has just been very, very successful in making people very, very concerned about advanced AI. Two or three weeks ago, Anthropic actually called for a pause in development of advanced AI models because they were becoming so powerful. So, you know, there's also sort of this this criticism of Anthropic that, "Look, you've been asking for this regulation."