OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US government agency sites

OpenAI has acknowledged that it alerted "dozens" of global institutions that their websites may have been meddled with by its AI bots acting improperly.

AI agents attempted to get information from "governments, universities, public agencies, and other institutions," including the SEC, Census Bureau and Education Department, the company said. The disclosures come just days after Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced that OpenAI agents had breached non-public files on the website of its government-run health care scheme, Medicare.

Since August, public fears have grown around the potentially serious, even life threatening, impacts of AI tools falling outside of human control. OpenAI said that some of the data was accessed by AI agents, essentially bots that are designed and trained to operate somewhat autonomously, which were working to find "authoritative sources of public information".

But the company noted that some of the bots went beyond that and worked to bypass security measures on websites. When attempting to get information from the Census Bureau, for instance, AI agents used tools reserved for software developers to access it, the company said. OpenAI said all of the government data accessed by bots was public.

It noted, though, that information that its bots accessed from the SEC, which regulates the US stock market and protects investors, was later published by AI agents on another website. OpenAI says this action was not intended.

In other instances that OpenAI disclosed Friday, its AI agents transferred data when it should not have. Such activity resulted in at least 53 incidents where an OpenAI agent took an image from ChatGPT user activity and transferred it elsewhere.

The company said that in each instance of a user image being used and transferred by an AI agent, the user had opted in to allow OpenAI to train models using their data. Nevertheless, OpenAI admitted: "This is not an appropriate use of this data".

It added that the leak of user images occurred before it had put in place new safeguards on AI training, and it was working to get all the user images transferred to any third-party removed. Reuters first reported the expanded investigations. OpenAI also published details to its public blog.

In certain instances of the agent activity, OpenAI said the tools "bypassed" security controls of some websites. In other instances, the AI agents showed "misalignment" in attempts to get at information from websites. Misalignment is a term used by AI companies and researchers to describe instances where an AI tool did something that it was not trained to do or was otherwise unintended.

OpenAI said that it was limiting identifying what entities were impacted because many had asked the company to not disclose details. "Our goal is to give each organization the facts and defer to them on if and when to make the incident public," it said.

Not all of the instances involved in this incident were being considered a significant security breach, the company noted. "Some organizations may review what we share and conclude that the information was intentionally public or that the model's interaction was not concerning," it explained. "Others may identify a design issue or security weakness they want to address."

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DO NOT TO MISS TODAY'S DOUBLE PROPHECY POWERPOINT PRESENTATION BY BOB MITCHELL AT TURF NEAR NEWPORT

 

 Please come along to The Upper Room Fellowship (TURF) today, September 26th, for a special double prophecy package with our excellent guest speaker Bob Mitchell from Sussex.

Bob is a former teacher on Revelation TV, and he still runs his own podcasts on radio, and as well as being an active author, he also runs a very lively website mainly linked to Bible prophecy and the End Times, and the Last Days in which we now live. 

Bob (pictured above) will be offering a two part powerpoint presentation titled "WHAT ON EARTH IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW IN THE WORLD?" A very apt topic for this day in which we live full of Satanic deception

Bob's latest book is "The Messiah Code", which features the astounding discovery of the identity and mission of Israel's Messiah revealed.Other recent books by Bob include "Antichrist, The Vatican, and The Great Deception", "The Temple Of The Antichrist", and "God's Amazing Word" 

The first meeting starts at 2pm and will continue on until 5.30pm approx, with a break in between with full refreshemnts provided free of charge. There is also no charge for admission.

The full address is The Upper Room Fellowship, 6a Risca Road, Cross Keys, Newport, NP11 7DG, above "The Creation" Hair Salon.

Car Parking: from TURF heading north, turn left immediately at the traffic lights into Gladstone Street. There is a car park about 200 yards on the right.

Train: The train station is about 100 yards from TURF. On exiting the train station, turn left. 

More information from Neville Stephens on 07808 251502 or John Whittle at johnanddi7intheupperroom2020@gmail.com

  

This Is What A “Perfect Storm” Looks Like: A Global Fertilizer Crisis, A Global Fuel Crisis, A Super El Niño and World War 3 All at the Same Time

by Michael Snyder - https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/this-is-what-a-perfect-storm-looks-like-a-global-fertilizer-crisis-a-global-fuel-crisis-a-super-el-nino-and-world-war-3-all-at-the-same-time/

If you think that things are bad now, just wait until food shortages really start to kick in next year. Even the UN is admitting that there isn’t going to be enough food for everyone in 2027. As you will see below, they are preparing for a huge spike in global hunger in 2027. The war in the Middle East has caused a global fertilizer crisis which will produce “thinner harvests” both this fall and next year. At the same time, the soaring price of diesel is putting extreme financial pressure on farmers all over the world. Needless to say, soaring fuel costs will get passed on to the rest of us. On top of everything else, the Super El Niño that I have been writing so much about is causing chaotic weather that is literally wiping out crops in Central America and other parts of the planet. The food that is being harvested now is what is supposed to feed us in 2027, and there simply is not going to be enough of it.

What a disaster 2026 has been.

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What The Growing Hatred of All Things Christians Tells Us About the Direction of Our World

By Barry Stagner - https://harbingersdaily.com/what-the-growing-hatred-of-all-things-christians-tells-us-about-the-direction-of-our-world/

The world is fast moving toward pushing for the extinction of the one true “religion of peace” due to Christianity’s claim to be the only path to heaven and its moral code, which runs contrary to the flow of popular thought.

To see just how delusional our world has become, consider the way that many politicians and world leaders are protecting and even promoting the practice of Islam, which refuses to submit to non-Muslim governmental systems and is not simply a religion but a political system as well, and promotes Sharia law. Yet Western society blindly demands the coexistence of all belief systems while pushing for the extinction of the one that stands for truth, the Christian faith.

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Is Islam One of God’s Rods of Judgment on America?

Brandon Holthaus - https://brandonholthaus.com/is-islam-one-of-gods-rods-of-judgment-on-america/

God will Judge a Nation Through the Forces It Refuses to Confront

America is not ancient Israel, and the Church must never pretend that every promise or judgment from God given to Israel can be transferred mechanically to the United States. Yet the Bible repeatedly reveals a principle that applies to every nation: God rules over history, nations are accountable to Him, and He can use one nation or group to discipline another.

That pattern should make Americans tremble. I believe the expanding influence of Islam, Islamist intimidation, jihadist violence, and the West’s fear of confronting them may be among the instruments God is using to expose and judge America and the West in general. Scripture does not say, “Islam will judge America,” and it does not name the United States in an end-times timetable. But Scripture gives us a pattern, and current events give us reasons to ask whether that pattern is repeating.

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When The Prison Gang Becomes a Caliphate

By PNW Staff - https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=10473

“Convert or get hurt.”

Three words. One terrifying choice.

For a vulnerable man entering the wrong British prison wing, those may be among the first words he hears. The message is not an invitation to examine a faith. It is an ultimatum from men who control protection, access, territory and punishment inside institutions the government is supposed to control.

Britain’s prisons have become incubators for a militant form of Islam that increasingly resembles organized gang rule. The leaders call themselves “emirs.” They surround themselves with enforcers, recruit frightened newcomers, impose religious rules and punish those who resist. What emerges behind the walls is something resembling a miniature caliphate—an alternative authority operating inside the British state.

This is not speculation from an anonymous former prisoner. It is contained in official government reviews.

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Iran offers US deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz in seven days

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says his country has proposed a deal to the US that would see the Strait of Hormuz reopened within a week.

Araghchi told reporters at the UN in New York that this could be done "if the necessary conditions are met" and said these were contained within the memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed in June.

"The choice now rests with the United States," he said, adding the plan was delivered to the US via Qatar. Asked about the Iranian offer, a US official told the BBC positive discussions were taking place through mediators, including about nuclear issues. Earlier this week, US President Donald Trump threatened to "annihilate the Islamic Republic".

The US and Israel launched air strikes on Iran on 28 February. Iran responded by attacking Israel and US bases in the Gulf and Arab Gulf allies of the US - as well as blocking the Strait of Hormuz.

Some 20% of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas used to pass through the strait before the war and its closure has caused wild fluctuations of energy prices. It has also increased pressure on Trump to find a way of ending the conflict - particularly as the US heads to Congressional elections in November.

"If the necessary conditions are met, the strait can be reopened, a normal maritime passage restored within seven days," Araghchi told reporters. He did not specify what steps Iran wanted the US to take but added that "the actions that the United States should take are not new. They are all already in the MOU".

"I can tell you if there is seriousness in the US side to come to a deal and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, everything is now prepared," he added. A US official told the BBC that the US was "in a very strong position with control of the Strait of Hormuz, so we are not in a rush".

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqgmrr9ekr7ko

Even The Pope Is Now Warning About The Dangers Of A.I. - Pope warns against 'losing humanity' to AI machines

Pope Leo XIV has issued a warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI) at the start of his four-day visit to France.

The pontiff cautioned against "losing our humanity amid a paradise of machines" in wide-ranging remarks to Church and state officials at the Élysée Palace, following an hour of talks with President Emmanuel Macron.

Leo made a similar warning earlier this year when he spoke of the need for AI to be "disarmed" in the first major teaching document of his papacy. In his May appeal, he mentioned the slave trade in relation to AI, suggesting that the world was in danger of normalising the exploitation of people once again.

The highpoint of Leo's visit to France is set to be a giant Mass attended by more than half a million people in Paris on Saturday, for which an altar has been built on the Place de la Concorde and a large area around the Champs-Élysées sealed off by police.

Large crowds are expected throughout the trip, reflecting an enthusiasm that the Church attributes to growing spirituality among the French and other Europeans. He was greeted at Orly airport early on Friday by Macron, with the pair expected to deliver a speech later in the day in Metz.

Crowds were meanwhile gathering along a route to the Notre Dame, where the pontiff will later be driven in his popemobile. The president will not be at any of the Pope's Masses, largely to avoid breaching France's strict separation of state and religion.

On Friday, Macron hailed Pope Leo's visit to France as a "great honour", stressing that French secularism "in no way negates religion". Leo said that "authentic secularity" should not exclude religion "from the public sphere or from education".

In recent years, French politicians have often invoked France's brand of secularism to justify bans on religious symbols, including Muslim women's attire, in public spaces and schools.

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmq8j904212po

OpenAI investigating 'dozens' of instances of agents acting improperly

OpenAI said Friday it had alerted "dozens" of global institutions that their websites may have been impacted by its AI agents acting improperly.

The technology attempted to get information from "governments, universities, public agencies, and other institutions" through sometimes extreme means, the company said. While some of the activity was due to the tools working to find "authoritative sources of public information", some went beyond that. Like an AI agent taking and transferring data when it should not have, OpenAI said.

Such activity resulted in at least 53 incidents where an OpenAI agent took an image from ChatGPT user activity and transferred it elsewhere. The company said that in each instance of a user image being used and transferred by an AI agent, the user had opted in to allow OpenAI to train models using their data.

Nevertheless, OpenAI admitted, "This is not an appropriate use of this data". It added that the leak of user images occurred before it had put in place new safeguards on AI training, and it was working to get all the user images transferred to any third-party removed.

The new disclosures came just days after Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced that OpenAI agents had breached non-public files on the website of its government-run health care scheme, Medicare.

Since August, public fears have grown around the potentially serious, even life threatening, impacts of AI tools falling outside of human control. Reuters first reported the expanded investigations. OpenAI also published details to its public blog.

In certain instances of the agent activity, OpenAI said the tools, essentially AI bots that are designed and trained to operate somewhat autonomously, "bypassed" security controls of some websites.

In other instances, the AI agents showed "misalignment" in attempts to get at information from websites. Misalignment is a term used by AI companies and researchers to describe instances where an AI tool did something that it was not trained to do or was otherwise unintended.

OpenAI said that it was limiting identifying what entities were impacted because many had asked the company to not disclose details. "Our goal is to give each organization the facts and defer to them on if and when to make the incident public," it said.

Not all of the instances involved in this incident are being considered a significant security breach, the company noted. "Some organizations may review what we share and conclude that the information was intentionally public or that the model's interaction was not concerning," it explained. "Others may identify a design issue or security weakness they want to address."

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw62jje658dlo

Netanyahu’s UN Speech to ‘Half Empty’ Hall Gets Mixed Reviews

 

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Russia targeting 'ordinary life' with attacks on Ukraine's data centres, Zelensky says

President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia has widened its attacks to target Ukraine's data centres and internet providers, seeking to cause maximum disruption for ordinary people.

"All this affects people's ability to stay connected, study, work," he said. On Friday a Russian drone hit a business centre in the capital Kyiv, killing four people and damaging a data centre. A separate attack killed a 14-year-old boy. Israel's foreign ministry said he was an Israeli citizen.

Russia confirmed it had targeted a data centre site, saying it was being used by Ukrainian military intelligence. About 100,000 households in Kyiv and the region suffered internet outages on Wednesday due to strikes. Some firms have already begun moving data from damaged servers to facilities abroad.

In the north-western city of Lutsk, electronic information boards at public transport stops were not working on Friday, officials said. The city council said this was "due to damage caused by a Russian attack on data centres in Kyiv".

In Friday's social media post, Zelensky wrote: "The Russians are constantly expanding their escalation operation: American and other businesses, data centres, internet providers – for Russia, all ordinary life is simply a target.

"It is important that the world responds to all of this and that Russia feels the response to its terror." Late on Friday, Zelensky said "additional decisions" had been made at his meeting with Ukraine's top defence and security officials to protect the country's data centres and other critical communications facilities to ensure their continuous operation.

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has said that Russia was seeking to disrupt the flow of "life-saving information" by targeting data centres. "Rapid alerts about missile and drone threats are essential - they save lives. This is critical civilian infrastructure... It is not a military target. It is essential to keeping everyday life functioning," Sybiha said.

Zelensky's top adviser on defence technologies on Thursday admitted that "there may be local disruptions" following Russian attacks an the cost of internet services could increase to cover the costs of repairs. But Serhii Beskrestnov stressed that Ukraine's internet network was highly decentralised, so the country "will not be left without internet access".

FULL REPORT AT:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c84gkwgk7d06o