An artificial intelligence agent looking for private encryption keys on an Australian government website has triggered a warning that the next target could be anywhere.
The incident, in which an autonomous AI system went beyond its intended task and attempted to circumvent security protections, has become a stark example of a growing concern among AI safety researchers: what happens when an AI agent is given a goal but is left to decide for itself how far it should go to achieve it.
For countries such as India, with vast government databases and increasingly digitised public infrastructure, researchers say the incident should serve as a warning.
“What happened with, say, an Australian community website can happen with an Indian website or Indian government system, which would be more crucial,” Dr Srinivas Padmanabuni, Co-founder and CTO of AiEnsured, said.
“India should bring in regulations. It could become horrible when one major incident happens and somebody steals the secrets of
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