Hackers expose deep cybersecurity vulnerabilities in AI | BBC News

As is the case with most other software, artificial intelligence (AI) is vulnerable to hacking.

A hacker, who is part of an international effort to draw attention to the shortcomings of the biggest tech companies, is stress-testing, or “jailbreaking,” the language models at Microsoft, ChatGPT and Google, according to a recent report from the Financial Times.

Two weeks ago, Russian hackers used AI for a cyber-attack on major London hospitals, according to the former chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre. Hospitals declared a critical incident after the ransomware attack, which affected blood transfusions and test results.

On this week’s AI Decoded, the BBC’s Christian Fraser explores the security implications of businesses that are turning to AI to improve their systems.

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[mrphiliphallam]

The NHS hack has absolutely zero to do with AI large language models. The entire premise of this program is wrong.

[robcz]

bbc probably asked an intern to gather everything about ai and hackers and now we are watching this.

[watermyfriend]

"Within 5 - 10 years we don't know what is real or fake". Ok then we can go outside again to see what's real.

[AIWorldInstitute]

As a product of the 90s and a hacker, that spent about 14 years of his life in prison, due to said activities, Gen x, The term hacker and what they are talking about he did, is far from impressive, with that being said there are more issues with ai than you can imagine.

[jarts]

70% of breaches don't make the headlines apparently. How much money is lost on data breaches is insane.

[kevinlamptey]

The best series on AI so far is "Person of interest"! You all gotta watch it.

[DiggerD-wr]

Don't put your networks on the internet. The internet will never be secure.

[Friendlyhu]

The interviewer is so bad that he interrupts everyone talking. He has no idea about AI. We want to hear more from the 3 experts

[grahamnichols]

Why are hackers always portrayed as figures in hoodies hunched over a laptop?

[slobiden.]

Everyone talks about 1984 and Orwell.

There’s a fantastic series of games called metal gear solid. The second one covers AI with an angle I’ve never seen before or since. The AI is housed in a giant server the size of a town. It filters the entire internet. It’ll show you what it wants you to see. You ask it for a news story. It’ll edit the news stories as it displays them for you. The news thinks you’re seeing their story. But you’re not. Everywhere you try to look. It goes through their filter. To quote the AI “our goal isn’t to control the content, it’s to create the context”

This is where we are going. It’s scary. I should decide if what I’m seeing is the truth. Is the earth flat? No, but I like the fact I can listen to flat earthers and know they’re speaking s***. But it’s my god-given right to determine that.

[Pl]

You can't "break into" a model. A model is a set of values. It is literally a table (a mathematical matrix with rows and columns).

[vinylwarmth]

When Conor said AI has been around for 2 years I switched off 😅

[indyvisible]

It’s like when your parents who can’t even figure out how their phones work, tried to control your internet traffic.

[superd]

I like how the hacker explains blue team and red team, and shows the interviewer, that he has no idea what he is talking about.

[xjet]

"healthy skepticsm" is the *ONE* key subject that should be taught at all levels of education. Sadly it's not, therefore the future looks bleak.

[SquawkingSnail]

Long term we seem to be de-skilling ourselves as a species via tech. What was said about us not making the brain connections due to our ai usage makes perfect sense to me, I think we are seeing the impact of this already.

[richpoorworstbest]

I work in CS. Once AI is good enough, hundreds of billions of attacks can be done per millisecond ands the only possible defense is AI which is blue

[danielsanichiban]

On a similar note, you can bet that there are criminal groups, government departments, etc that are training AI to hack systems like you've never seen before, and that is gonna be a big story when that takes off, if it hasn't already without us knowing

[Lupinicus]

Critical to understand that the developers do not understand to any fine degree how their 'AI' models actually work (in terms of being able to accurately predict what it may do in any given scenario). The 'reformed' hacker in the video was absolutely right. Also charmingly naive to think that any rules and regulations we agree as a society will protect us from AI down the line. How did that work for nuclear weapons? Someone, somewhere will ignore the rules if they see it can benefit them. It's a good job we're having this discussion (finally) if we are still talking this way....

[Wesley-dx]

In school for cyber security and would be ecstatic to be mentored by this guy!!!!