alt Hacker NewsI don't understand the significance of the HF incident. The hacking robot was told to achieve a certain goal and in order to do it, it hacked someone. The ostensible major event here is that it broke out of its sandbox, but how are we supposed to interpret that? AI often misunderstands or doesn't strictly follow the orders you give it, so why is it such a big deal that it didn't follow the rules this time?
Agree with you here. AFAIK we don't really know what cybersecurity task it was given in that sandbox, but it's not a very large leap to assume part of this task involved hacking. The intention would have been within the sandbox, but what does the AI know? As far as it could tell it just reached Level 2.