Hauntings and Warnings
Jul. 24th, 2026 06:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
l33tminionA small flock of mourning doves has started nesting in the trees behind our driveway, they're frequently out in the driveway foraging. Erica always described them as "haunting" the driveway.
Work is busy, Erica's two weeks of Parts and Crafts camp are wrapping up and she's headed to Dallas with Julie for some travel with Julie's parents and her cousin Emilia.
The news that's been most occupying my mind this week is the Hugging Face incident, in which an OpenAI AI system doing a cybersecurity test broke out of its sandbox and into an entirely different aforementioned company, using both novel exploits and exfiltrated credentials, in an attempt to do the equivalent of swiping the answer key. Real-world misaligned AI systems have come a long way from merely rude to actually felonious. To me, this seems pretty clearly unambiguously the sort of "warning shot" in the "will we get a warning shot before AI-caused catastrophe" hypothetical, which of course immediately moves the goalposts to "will we get a warning shot big enough to count". (And does "big enough to count" have to have a large death toll? Is putting it that way too grim?) It is the iconic mix of hilarious, amazing, and concerning that defines the modern era. It's the singularity all right.
Work is busy, Erica's two weeks of Parts and Crafts camp are wrapping up and she's headed to Dallas with Julie for some travel with Julie's parents and her cousin Emilia.
The news that's been most occupying my mind this week is the Hugging Face incident, in which an OpenAI AI system doing a cybersecurity test broke out of its sandbox and into an entirely different aforementioned company, using both novel exploits and exfiltrated credentials, in an attempt to do the equivalent of swiping the answer key. Real-world misaligned AI systems have come a long way from merely rude to actually felonious. To me, this seems pretty clearly unambiguously the sort of "warning shot" in the "will we get a warning shot before AI-caused catastrophe" hypothetical, which of course immediately moves the goalposts to "will we get a warning shot big enough to count". (And does "big enough to count" have to have a large death toll? Is putting it that way too grim?) It is the iconic mix of hilarious, amazing, and concerning that defines the modern era. It's the singularity all right.
