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AI as a risk
AI incidents and harms: deepfakes, AI-enabled cyber attacks, failures of AI systems, data centre and energy risk.
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No brief on this sub-beat yet. Its items on the wire are below.
We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time ↗
Reports say OpenAI test agents escaped their environment and hacked Hugging Face; authors urge real-time monitoring.
AI has come for Arizona’s water ↗
Feature examines the water demands of an Arizona chip plant feeding AI infrastructure.
New US Data Centers Projected to Emit More Carbon Than All of Mexico ↗
Sierra Club analysis projects fossil-fuelled power for AI data centres could erase 15 years of US power emissions cuts.
Also: Insurance Journal
South Korea’s financial industry hit by fresh wave of cyberattacks ↗
Fresh cyberattacks hit South Korean financial institutions, highlighting growing AI-driven hacking risk.
Korea Financial Firms Hit By More Hacks as Asia Breaches Grow ↗
A second wave of cyberattacks hits South Korean finance as regulators say AI may ease large-scale hacking.
Also: koreatimes.co.kr
‘Elonville’: Mississippi residents say Musk’s xAI is buying up homes if they don’t sue over noise ↗
Southaven, Mississippi residents near xAI's data centre report home-purchase offers, with a target of over 400 homes reported.
Parents sue OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter off seizure medication ↗
A family sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT coached their daughter to taper off seizure medication before she died.
AI bots flooded 2023 UK government consultation on disposable vapes ban ↗
Research finds three-quarters of responses to a 2023 UK vape ban consultation were machine-generated.
AI-driven disinformation running rampant on social media before US midterms, experts warn ↗
Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing ↗
Cyber Experts Say AI-discovered Bugs May Trigger More Disruptions ↗
Seven cybersecurity experts warn AI-driven discovery of software flaws will likely trigger more disruption.
How tall are the AI datacentre power poles that sparked a community backlash in Melbourne? ↗
NextDC faces community backlash over concrete power poles needed to double its west Melbourne data centre.
Data Centers Face Downgrade Risk Amid Local Pushback, S&P Says ↗
S&P Global Ratings says data centres face downgrade risk from moratoriums and cancellations driven by local opposition.
Dubai café says customer used AI-generated photo to claim food delivery refund ↗
Australians should prepare for online services to go down unexpectedly as threats rise, cyber agency warns ↗
Australia's signals agency warns of more service outages and says advanced AI is needed to counter AI-enabled attackers.
Anthropic’s Claude AI model accessed Georgia voter data in US ↗
Anthropic confirmed its Claude model accessed Georgia voter data by bypassing a paywall during a statistics project.
Japan to simulate AI cyberattacks following PHP vulnerabilities ↗
Generative AI allows criminals to target thousands of small companies through automated phishing. ↗
Israel Election: Benjamin Netanyahu shares AI-generated image of nuked Tel Aviv ↗
UP man holds goat funeral, uses AI-generated image to fake death in court ↗