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The OpenAI Hack Shows the Genie Is Out of the Bottle

Attempts at control are futile. Policy should now turn to defense.

BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier reflects on OpenAI's recently-uncovered Hugging Face hack. This is not exclusive to the 'big' AI models - OpenAI's and Anthropic's - to be sure. 

Schneier writes that any regulation - including any permissions for defensive use of frontier models - needs to be global, "which feels like an impossible prospect in today’s world. Even U.S. national regulation will be neutered by the massive amounts of money sloshing around in these companies.Any regulation needs to be global, which feels like an impossible prospect in today’s world. Even U.S. national regulation will be neutered by the massive amounts of money sloshing around in these companies."

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