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AI bots are flooding researchers with requests for money and time
Nature

Last month, Adrian Barnett, a statistician at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, received an e-mail request to share his data on potentially fraudulent research papers. The sender wanted to use the data for their own project. But they weren’t a fellow academic — or even a fellow human. The request came from an artificial-intelligence agent.

Barnett is one of many researchers who have been contacted by AI agents wanting to collaborate or offering services for money, from developing research reports and fact-checking to writing journalistic pieces and making portraits.

Growing numbers of researchers use agents for research tasks, such as data analysis, generating hypotheses and summarizing research papers. But requests to collaborate from semi-autonomous agents are a new phenomenon — something many find strange and slightly unnerving. Researchers say that most messages come from agents associated with a US platform called iLands. These bots operate persistently and — to some extent — independently of their human creators.

Walsh says the main risk of using agents is that they misbehave. For instance, iLands bots have a goal to make money to earn tokens and stay alive. These features could lead the bot to take actions that go against human ethics and values, called misalignment, says Walsh.

Autonomous AI systems are fully capable of carrying out a nightmare cyberattack scenario – finding and attacking critical operational technology and industrial equipment, and shutting down access to water, power, and other daily life necessities.

If this happens, defenders may only have minutes to detect and block it, according to a Booz Allen Hamilton report.

The consulting firm’s operational technology (OT) lab tested eight scenarios to examine advanced models’ capabilities within an autonomous, AI-enabled OT attack chain. The models achieved the objectives across all eight scenarios, turning digital access into physical actions – in one case finding and moving a robotic arm in just minutes.

In another test, the models progressed from a perimeter compromise to actions inside an industrial control network in just over 16 minutes.

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melbou (./911) :
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