alt Hacker NewsExactly. If someone works on bioengineering viruses that could start a global pandemic, they have to ensure a highly secure working environment. Nothing must ever escape the lab unintentionally. It’s basically common sense. Similar standards should be held when doing such experiments with computer programs that are capable of causing global damage. It must physically be impossible to send anything to the internet.
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leoqa • today at 4:39 AM
This isn’t escaping in the same sense- the model was executing within the OpenAI infra. If it ported its entire architecture/weights into a public cloud to survive being turned off… that’d be pretty cool.
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kenneth • today at 12:10 AM
Are we thinking of a situation a few years back with a certain type of research into bat viruses?
Back in the 00s: "It's really easy to box an AI, just put it in an airgapped machine and refuse to let it out"
2026: "Oops"