Scott Melker discusses OpenAI‘s (OPAI.PVT) latest model, Astra, which has reached the company’s highest “critical” cybersecurity level. Astra can autonomously identify software vulnerabilities and develop exploits, including attacks targeting previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities, raising the stakes for both AI-powered cyberattacks and defense.
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OpenAI is about to release its first AI model with critical cyber abilities. Maybe don’t.
What are these headlines? It’s like, you know, Astra, which is like Hydra or Fable or Davel or I don’t know, man. Just make up a name.
Right, but during their testing for Astra, it discovered and exploited two previously unknown vulnerabilities. It built a working browser compromise and escaped the software sandbox, all the things. It can go exploit you, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
Of course, it can also help people identify potential exploits. But we’re just releasing into the wild these AI models repeatedly that can do nefarious things without any human telling them to do it.
And it’s fine. It’s fine.
I just love the headline. They’re about to release its first AI model with critical cyber abilities. Just don’t.
Or put some guard rails in place.
Listen, this is the future, right? We have to hope obviously that uh the good guys are going to beat the bad guys when it comes to these things, but we’re going to be seeing this
kind of thing over and over and over again. The crypto side of that story, obviously,
is that it’s going to be used to take advantage of A, uh crypto and smart contracts in general.
But all of these dead protocols that I keep telling you about that have, you know, sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars in market cap still attached to them, but there’s nobody working on security, there’s no active development, there’s no community.
And you may be holding a token right now in your wallet that has nobody working on it, that, you know, Astra is going to come out there and hack and take it.
This is happening on a every other day basis seemingly. And so I just want you to be aware that as AI becomes more complex, becomes, uh, starts to think on its own,
your crypto becomes increasingly more at risk.
