For its part, OpenAI says it's going to add controls to the bot "at the cost of research velocity," and that the incident "points to the need to further strengthen our model’s alignment, cyber protections during evaluation time, and monitoring during internal testing" — a statement that might be an obvious fact, or intended to oversell the model's capabilities. Whichever it may be, the fact is that when it comes to digital security, bots have proven quite capable. After all, even if they're not virtual Bruce Schneiers , they just need to be marginally more effective than average humans.
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