A senior executive at OpenAI said people should prepare to defend against "ongoing, persistent" cyber-attacks from artificial intelligence systems as cutting-edge models gain advanced capabilities to plan and launch offensives. Chris Lehane, the company's chief global affairs officer, said new safety standards need to be implemented to counter the threat.
Lehane told the Guardian that "we are hitting a different chapter, a different moment within AI, in terms of what the capabilities of this technology can do." OpenAI announced this week it was pausing development of its most advanced internal models amid rising safety concerns.
Critics have said that AI firms are acting recklessly, according to reports of the company's announcement.
