Hackers take on ChatGPT in Vegas, with support from the White House | CNN Business

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..."Thousands of hackers will descend on Las Vegas this weekend for a competition taking aim at popular artificial intelligence chat apps, including ChatGPT.

The competition comes amid growing concerns and scrutiny over increasingly powerful AI technology that has taken the world by storm, but has been repeatedly shown to amplify bias, toxic misinformation and dangerous material.

Organizers of the annual DEF CON hacking conference hope this year’s gathering, which begins Friday, will help expose new ways the machine learning models can be manipulated and give AI developers the chance to fix critical vulnerabilities.

The hackers are working with the support and encouragement of the technology companies behind the most advanced generative AI models, including OpenAI, Google, and Meta, and even have the backing of the White House. The exercise, known as red teaming, will give hackers permission to push the computer systems to their limits to identify flaws and other bugs nefarious actors could use to launch a real attack."...

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I’m there now…. The issue is in part that big IT is pushing AI out faster than taking measured steps to secure it. One could argue this is what happened with the build up with the Internet and other ground breaking technologies. The real problem I see that must be address is our elected leaders who make laws must understand it and the implications so that they can get ahead of it. We’re already behind in many aspects with IT now, with respect to solid laws to protect the people while maintaining freedom of speech.