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LISTEN: Recent hacking of Hugging Face exposes the risk of Artificial Intelligence, says expert

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In recent weeks, Jacaranda Newswatch reported on tech leaders' concerns over the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence.

This comes after hundreds of AI agents from OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, escaped an isolated testing environment known as a sandbox.

Concern over the safety of AI increased after a researcher from Anthropic, the company behind Claude, resigned and said to the world media that AI is an existential threat to humanity.

Emile Pienaar spoke with the Director of the North West University AI Hub, Professor Anné Verhoef, to understand whether these concerns are justified.
16 Sep 12PM English South Africa News · Daily News

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