Hacking OpenAI (opens in new tab)

Everyone is extremely worried that models are going to hack the planet and end civilization, all the while in reality we’re still seeing unsandboxed parsers in memory unsafe languages delivering the goods to attackers like it’s the 90s.

You don’t need AI to hack unpatched systems and default password VNC. We have basic cyber hygiene problems that we have to clean up if we want to climb the ladder to some of the more serious protections necessary to get us to the post-Hugging Face level.

— Alex Stamos, “Moving forward from hot Fable summer”