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‘We are hitting a different chapter’: OpenAI leader warns of threat of ‘persistent’ AI cyber-attacks

OpenAI chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane warned that people should prepare to defend against 'ongoing, persistent' cyber-attacks from AI, as advanced models gain capabilities to plan and launch offensives. The company announced a pause in development of its most advanced internal models amid rising safety fears, with Lehane stating, 'We are hitting a different chapter, a different moment within AI.'

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‘We are hitting a different chapter’: OpenAI leader warns of threat of ‘persistent’ AI cyber-attacks
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The Guardian TechnologyChris Lehane tells Guardian of need to implement new safety standards as critics say AI firms acting ‘recklessly’

A senior leader at OpenAI has said people should prepare to defend against “ongoing, persistent” cyber-attacks from AIs, as cutting-edge artificial intelligence models gain advanced capabilities to plan and launch offensives.

The leading AI company this week announced a in development of its most advanced internal models amid rising safety fears, and Chris Lehane, its chief global affairs officer, said: “We are hitting a different chapter, a different moment within AI, in terms of what the capabilities of this technology can do.”

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