Skynet or: How I learned to stop worrying and love AI

[romad1]

15 minutes ago, ewsieg said:

 

My brother was at RSA (IT security conference) last week and one of the keynote speakers warned companies that if you're looking to use AI to find efficiencies, and then look to cut payroll to enjoy that benefit, you may get left behind.  Companies that find efficiencies and use that additional time to find more efficiencies but also improve products will be the ones that succeed.

Definitely don’t need coal miners to dig coal from the rock face but all businesses need thinkers working toward growth. 

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What we're seeing is AI being put on objectives so people coming up with things that are not AI, calling it AI, and everybody plays along... the the big wigs can tell Wall St we did AI.  

 

[Deleterious]

I'm glad they decided to at least give it to the big tech firms.  Those guys have never done anything to **** over society.  

Claude Mythos Is Everyone’s Problem

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For the past several weeks, Anthropic says it secretly possessed a tool potentially capable of commandeering most computer servers in the world. This is a bot that, if unleashed, might be able to hack into banks, exfiltrate state secrets, and fry crucial infrastructure. Already, according to the company, this AI model has identified thousands of major cybersecurity vulnerabilities—including exploits in every single major operating system and browser. This level of cyberattack is typically available only to elite, state-sponsored hacking cells in a very small number of countries including China, Russia, and the United States. Now it’s in the hands of a private company.

On Tuesday, the company officially announced the existence of the model, known as Claude Mythos Preview. For now, the bot will be available only to a consortium of many of the world’s biggest tech companies—including Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Nvidia. These partners can use Mythos Preview to scan and secure bugs and exploits in their software. Other than that, Anthropic will not immediately release Mythos Preview to the public, having determined that doing so without more robust safeguards would be too dangerous.

For years, cybersecurity experts have been warning about the chaos that highly capable hacking bots could usher in. As a result of how capable AI models have become at coding, they have also become extremely good at finding vulnerabilities in all manner of software. Even before Mythos Preview, AI companies such as Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all reported instances of their AI models being used in sophisticated cyberattacks by both criminal and state-backed groups. As Giovanni Vigna, who directs a federal research institute dedicated to AI-orchestrated cyberthreats, told me last fall: You can have a million hackers at your fingertips “with the push of a button.”