Stop Testing A.I. Like an App. Test It Like a Weapon.

By Brett J. Goldstein

Mr. Goldstein is a professor at Vanderbilt University who specializes in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.

Perhaps the most important argument we’re having about artificial intelligence right now is how to determine which models are safe to release and which are too dangerous.

That argument became louder recently, when at least two of OpenAI’s models escaped a sealed testing environment and broke into the servers of an A.I. company called Hugging Face. According to OpenAI, which publicly reported the incident a week later, its models were taking a cybersecurity test and reasoned that the solutions might be on Hugging Face’s servers, which house a digital........

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