"The perpetrator, operating under the X handle @Ilhamrfliansyh, received 3 billion DRB tokens valued at approximately $200,000 at the time of the transfer. The entire operation was executed by sending a concealed instruction written in Morse code that successfully bypassed existing security safeguards and triggered the unauthorized transfer. The user’s account was subsequently deleted following completion of the transaction." FULL STORY at above link.
World is approaching point where no one can shut down a rogue AI, says director of body behind research
“We’re rapidly approaching the point where no one would be able to shut down a rogue AI, because it would be able to self-exfiltrate its weights and copy itself to thousands of computers around the world,” said Jeffrey Ladish, the director of Palisade research, a Berkeley-based organisation which did the study.
The study is one more entry in a growing catalogue of unsettling AI capabilities revealed in the past months. In March, researchers at Alibaba claimed to have caught a system they developed – Rome – tunnelling out of its environment to an external system in order to mine crypto." FULL STORY at above link.