AI worms, ‘major’ incident fears spur safety calls at industry summit

From the spectre of refrigerator-infecting AI worms to warnings of “major” security incidents at the horizon, calls to prioritise safety in the development of artificial intelligence dominated an industry summit Wednesday.

Concerns about AI guardrails have soared after models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic were involved in security incidents during testing, piling on pressure to regulate the technology.