AI models are inching closer to hacking on their own

AXIOS April 26, 2024
Sam Sabin

Some large language models already have the ability to create exploits in known security vulnerabilities, according to new academic research.

Why it matters: Government officials and cybersecurity executives have long warned of a world in which artificial intelligence systems automate and speed up malicious actors’ attacks.

• The new report indicates this fear could be a reality sooner than anticipated.

Zoom in: Computer scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign found in a paper published this month that GPT-4 can write malicious scripts to exploit known vulnerabilities using publicly available data.

• The scientists — Richard Fang, Rohan Bindu, Akul Gupta and Daniel Kang — tested 10 publicly available LLM agents this year to see if they could exploit...

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