Rare post from the genius Ilya Sutskever, this time on security against rogue AI models
Summary
Ilya Sutskever discusses the cybersecurity risks of neoclouds in the context of rogue AI models, urging companies to strengthen their defenses.
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Neoclouds have limited cybersecurity. Next time agents successfully go rouge, they’ll try taking over a neocloud to run more copies. This is bad.
Thus: neoclouds should greatly strengthen their cybersecurity and every company with strong cyber models should help with that.
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