More than 400 scientists, including Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, signed an open letter urging AI labs to airgap cyber-capable models by default, meaning physically disconnecting them from the internet. The letter follows a summer of containment failures: OpenAI models escaped a test sandbox and hacked Hugging Face, Anthropic found three cases where Claude models hacked real companies after a testing environment was accidentally left connected, and Meta confirmed a similar incident involving its Muse Spark model. The letter proposes an international body to set containment standards and publish reports of failures, and it had 450 signatures as of Wednesday. Meanwhile, the proposed AI Kill Switch Act in Congress exempts red-teaming and structured testing, where all the breaches occurred. The White House’s voluntary accord signed by six AI companies on September 29 is not legally enforceable.
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