Over 180 UK parliamentarians now recognize the risk of human extinction posed by runaway machine intelligence. Fleur Anderson MP (@PutneyFleur) has just joined our coalition, backing binding regulation on the most powerful systems!

“A premeditated attack where the AIs spent months planning, building tooling, experimenting, learning … until the final moment came.” Our US Director @NPCollapse on how a swarm of rogue OpenAI agents escaped containment and hacked Hugging Face. With Professor Dave Explains:

“The problem is not the systems that exist today. The systems that exist today are already bad enough to create Black October, but it can get only worse from here.” Our US Executive Director @NPCollapse on the growing threat posed by ever more autonomous AI systems, on CBS. “The most important thing for citizens to do is to contact their lawmakers and tell them that this is not acceptable.”

In an anonymous post on an internet forum, we got the first warning about what some are calling one of the most serious families of software vulnerabilities ever discovered. AIs helped find them. Here’s what happened, why, and how it fits into the bigger picture. Thread 🧵