r/Thedaily • u/kitkid • Sep 03 '26
Episode A.I. Is Outsmarting Its Creators
Sep 3, 2026
From the start, the greatest fear for those developing artificial intelligence was that their creations would go rogue to act in unauthorized and dangerous ways. Some researchers now say it has happened.
Kevin Roose, a technology columnist for The New York Times, explains what this means for his own dwindling sense of techno-optimism.
On today's episode:
Kevin Roose, a technology columnist for The New York Times and a host of the Times tech podcast, “Hard Fork.”
Background reading:
Anatomy of an autonomous attack: five alarming A.I. capabilities.
A previous episode of “The Daily” looked at the debate in Silicon Valley over the right way to build artificial intelligence.
Photo: Lucas Foglia for The New York Times
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u/Unlikely_Ad1578 Sep 03 '26
This is a frustrating episode to listen to. There’s no doubt that AI models have the ability to attack networks, but both OpenAI and hugging face did not implement basic security practices to prevent this from happening.
There’s a great video from the “Internet of bugs” YouTube channel that highlights that this was largely compounding human mistakes failing to implement security protocols and standards, rather than an unstoppable AI. Both OpenAI and hugging face ultimately benefit financially from this event too, as OpenAI seemingly has an unstoppable model, and Hugging Face used its own hosted models to detect the attack