James Dao

@farrukhkjadoon @soroushjp and the addendum that always blows my mind: "the models are currently the dumbest they'll ever be" in ~3 days, it will be the 3rd anniversary of chatgpt's initial release

Fun fact: two yrs ago @soroushjp graciously let me latch onto a free ticket to HackSydney, where he spoke about doing catastrophic-scenario alignment work for frontier model labs like Anthropic. honestly, i didn't fully grok the urgency back then..

Our AI AppSec agent recently found a DoS-class vuln in Next.js that can be pulled off with no more than a smart toaster 🍞. We disclosed it, the maintainers patched it, and now the full write-up is now live (with mitigation advice you can action now)! 🔗 harmonyintelligence.com/taking-down-ne…

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12/13 After 12 months of exploring a broad set of safety evals, our team at Harmony Intelligence has identified cybersecurity as a critical area requiring urgent attention. We're now focusing our efforts on developing defensive applications to address these challenges.

1/13 We're excited to share AutoCryptoBench: a benchmark measuring AI models' abilities to autonomously earn and use cryptocurrency without human intervention. Our goal: assess how close we are to the threat of self-sustaining AI agents. (Link to full report in this thread)

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