Everyone is calling for safer AI. So what does that mean?
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Everyone is calling for safer AI. So what does that mean?

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 24, 202622 min

AI safety has dominated the news cycle for weeks, precipitated in part by an AI attack where a bunch of OpenAI’s agents teamed up and hacked another AI platform, Hugging Face, without humans knowing. Since then, multiple AI researchers have come forward to say they’re worried this tech is unsafe. It seems every day there’s a new development: another warning from an AI researcher, an admission from a top lab that their AI systems breached another company, reassurances from CEOs. AI safety is even on the agenda for the UN General Assembly meeting this week. S...

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Hey, I'm Flora, and you're listening to Science Friday. For the last few weeks, AI safety has dominated the news cycle, precipitated in part by an AI attack where a bunch of open AI agents teamed up and hacked another AI platform, hugging face, without humans knowing.

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Since then, multiple AI researchers have come forward to say how worried they are that this tech is unsafe. Now every day it seems like there's a new development. So how do we make sense of what's happening in AI research right now?

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Today we're going to focus on the engineering of AI safety. And we wanted to hear from experts outside of the hype machine of Silicon Valley, outside of the major AI companies, scientists who are doing the dirty work of figuring out what developing safer AI even means.

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