The UN-backed Independent International Scientific Panel on AI’s warning followed the hack of the online platform HuggingFace between May and July by “AI agents” during a test initiated by OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT.
AI agents are software that can perform tasks independently and on behalf of a user, compared to chatbots, which are prompted by questions or instructions.
The panel issued its first thematic brief which found that the security breach was the result of a culmination of key risk factors, raising fears that humans will one day no longer be able to steer, constrain or stop AI.
