I have read a technical but comprehensible explanation of the OpenAI 'rogue software' event - with close attention as the detail relates to IT at the outer limit of my personal understanding.
Summing up is clear
"If you optimize a model to find exploits, you should expect it to find them — and prepare for that. OpenAI did not. They built a model, took the safeguards off, gave it the ExploitGym task, let it run, and didn't even monitor it. That's human decision-making."
https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/models-dont-go-rogue/
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