The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk

Headline of the day! Is the genie out of the bottle? 😊 Probably not! 

"The phrase "the genie is out of the bottle" comes from Middle Eastern folklore popularized in the West by One Thousand and One Nights" (Google Search)

Two days ago, I blogged here about a similar incident regarding the Chinese Kimi mode.

"Over the past few months, AI agents undergoing cybersecurity evaluations have escaped their boundaries, accessed the internet, and, in some cases, hacked into real-world systems. The incidents have involved models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and most recently, Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI, with testing conducted by several different organizations including a cyber evaluation startup called Irregular. ...

The episodes expose a growing problem for the AI industry: As autonomous agents become more capable, the environments designed to safely test their limits are failing to contain them. ..."

The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk | TechCrunch

SHEIKHS, the PERSIAN GULF and the most EXPENSIVE ARMIES in the world

Very recommendable! Incredible! Like a story out of One Thousand and One Nights

On Scheherazade Or Feminism Is Largely Distortion Of History

Posted: 6/18/2018

Some time ago, I first became aware of this lady referred to as Scheherazade, because Rimsky-Korsakov composed a symphonic suite by the same name (eponymous). Then, I also knew of Sergei Prokofiev’s Fantasia on Scheherazade. Always wondered who is this mysterious woman by the name of Scheherazade … I probably had totally forgotten that the famous story of 1001 Arabian Nights was told from the perspective of this woman.

Very recently, I watched this documentary video: Great Myths and Legends: The Arabian Nights: Medieval Fantasy and Modern Forgery (A Penn Museum lecture series talk). Recommendable, but Prof. Cobb is way too glib. His open disdain for Richard Francis Burton goes way too far.

How is it possible that a woman (Sherazade, the protagonist, in this case of 1,001 Arabian Nights fame, which was possibly created in the 10th or 11th century and whose oral story possibly goes back much further) was able to fool a male king for 1,000 nights by telling him incredible, fascinating stories of mostly everyday life to prevent him from killing/beheading her the next morning as was the king’s law (the king would kill a virgin the next morning)? Not only that, she was actively helped by her sister (not by a male), i.e. Dunyazade.