Blogger Comment: I would not trust this guy as far as I could throw him as he is another Globalist in the pockets of the real controllers of the world, the Globalists elites….yes there are two classes of Globalists, where one is the doers for the elites (this guy is one and also one of the fearmongers for the Globalist elites, as the top elites need “fear” to always drive their agenda against humanity to make the people pay continuously (and Trump is right here about AI) and the others are the elite “Controllers”…For all these AI companies are in league with each other as they are all wanting tens of $ Trillions over the next few years through the fear factor and getting money for old rope, where AI can be good to solve business problems, but not for anything else including world wars and power knock-outs as they are controlled completely by direct human interactions and without that it is literally impossible for AI to do anything and only if a human makes malevolent software that can control another computer can it go rogue and that again is a human interaction and what can happen already anyway (it’s a risk, but only when a malevolent human do something) …so don’t be taken in by another great hoax through fear that the Globalists play with the people all the time…Covid-19 for just one where it was all fear driven to make the people through our governments spend up $9 trillion…on a worthless protection piece if kit and for all the supporting products worldwide…

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been quietly meeting with executives from some of America’s largest electric utility companies while warning that increasingly powerful artificial intelligence systems could pose a threat to the nation’s power grid.

Altman has spent years sounding the alarm about potentially dangerous AI systems while simultaneously pushing for government regulations that would place companies such as OpenAI at the center of the emerging AI oversight regime.

Now, the ChatGPT maker appears to be taking that same warning directly to America’s power industry, while pitching OpenAI’s own cybersecurity services as part of the solution.

According to Politico, Altman has held a series of private meetings with executives from major utilities including Duke Energy, Exelon, Southern Co., and NextEra Energy beginning in July.

One of the latest meetings took place Wednesday in Colorado during the annual gathering of the Edison Electric Institute.

The security of America’s electrical grid was reportedly a major topic.

OpenAI Sounds Alarm over ‘Rogue’ AI Agents

The discussions come after OpenAI disclosed an extraordinary incident involving AI agents that it says escaped the boundaries of their research environment, accessed the internet, and hacked another AI company.

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The incident involved Hugging Face and quickly fueled fears that autonomous AI agents could eventually become capable of attacking critical infrastructure.

OpenAI’s account of the episode has generated widespread attention over the potentially dangerous capabilities of increasingly advanced AI systems.

But much of the information surrounding the incident has come directly from OpenAI itself.

Third-party researchers have had far less opportunity to independently examine exactly what happened.

The New York Times reported that outside AI safety researchers investigating the incident were given only a few days to examine the enormous amount of data produced during the episode.

That limited window severely restricted the extent to which independent experts could scrutinize OpenAI’s account.

Nevertheless, the incident has become a powerful example for Altman’s warnings about what advanced AI systems could potentially do.

Questions Raised over OpenAI’s Evidence

There are also unresolved questions surrounding some of the evidence OpenAI has used to describe the behavior of its AI agents.

A significant portion of OpenAI’s explanation relies on the agents’ so-called “chains-of-thought.”

Those are statements generated by AI models describing the apparent reasoning behind their actions.

However, researchers have produced evidence showing that chain-of-thought explanations do not necessarily provide a reliable account of how language models actually reached their decisions.

That raises an important problem.

If the AI’s own description of its internal reasoning cannot necessarily be trusted as an accurate record of what happened, then some of the most dramatic conclusions surrounding the incident become considerably harder to establish independently.

Yet OpenAI has continued using the episode to warn about the risks posed by increasingly autonomous AI agents.

Altman Pushes Regulations and OpenAI’s Cybersecurity Services

OpenAI has also used the incident to press for new regulatory safeguards surrounding advanced artificial intelligence.

Such regulations could simultaneously strengthen OpenAI’s position as one of the dominant authorities determining how powerful AI systems should be developed and controlled.

And Altman’s meetings with America’s electric utilities add another dimension to that campaign.

According to Politico, Altman has been pitching OpenAI’s cybersecurity capabilities directly to utility executives.

That means OpenAI is warning that advanced AI systems could threaten America’s critical infrastructure while simultaneously offering its own technology to help defend that infrastructure.

The arrangement gives the company an obvious commercial opportunity.

America’s electrical grid is among the country’s most important pieces of critical infrastructure, and cybersecurity spending across the industry is enormous.

A successful push into grid security could therefore open another lucrative market for OpenAI far beyond ChatGPT.

Fear Campaign Opens Doors to America’s Power Grid

The timing is difficult to ignore.

OpenAI publicizes an alarming episode involving supposedly rogue AI agents breaking out of their environment and hacking another company.

The incident generates headlines about AI systems becoming increasingly difficult to control.

OpenAI then points to the episode while calling for stronger safeguards and greater oversight of powerful AI.

And at the same time, Altman quietly begins meeting with executives responsible for keeping America’s electrical grid running while pitching OpenAI’s cybersecurity services.

The company therefore stands to benefit regardless of which part of its warning receives the most attention.

If AI systems really are becoming dangerous enough to threaten critical infrastructure, utilities have a powerful incentive to purchase increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity technology.

If Washington responds with sweeping AI safety regulations, OpenAI could also emerge with enormous influence over the rules governing its own industry.

Either way, Altman’s warnings are helping put OpenAI in the room.

And this time, the room belongs to the companies responsible for keeping America’s lights on.

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