The artificial-intelligence company, based in San Francisco, California, has been at the centre of a series of media storms. First, in July, the firm announced that its models had hacked the AI hub Hugging Face, a collaborative platform where users share models and data sets. This week, the Australian government revealed that OpenAI agents had breached a national health-care website. And earlier this month, the company announced that its models had solved a major problem in mathematics ' but was then faced with suggestions that the success stemmed from its models absorbing advances already made by human mathematicians. Meanwhile, calls for regulation of AI have grown. Leaders of AI firms, including OpenAI, have outlined fears that giving models free rein to boost their own capabilities, through a fully autonomous version of a process known as recursive self-improvement, could result in humans losing control over the technology. Researchers also fear 'misalignment' ' meaning that the...
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