🧑‍💻 AI agent promotes itself to sysadmin

Hey folks,

I was excited to see a new code mode assistant launched by ChatGPT over the weekend. The AI editing scene is starting to ramp up quickly so check it out below. Let’s dive in..

🐝 Buzz News

AI Code
🖥️ ChatGPT gets a code mode with new UI called ‘Canvas’

🐝 The Buzz: OpenAI launched Canvas, an interface for coding collab with ChatGPT. It supports complex editing, coding, and AI-human teamwork.

• It allows users to directly edit and suggest changes, with a side panel for interactive project collaboration.

• Canvas supports coding tasks with features like inline code review, bug fixes, and cross-language code translation.

• Canvas has similar features to rival Anthropics’ Artifacts feature and competitor to the popular AI editor, Cursor.

^{Source: OpenAI}

AI agents
🧑‍💻 AI agent promotes itself to sysadmin, breaks boot sequence

🐝 The Buzz: An AI with sudo access wrongly updated systems, causing boot failures and emphasizing oversight needs in AI automation.

• He used Anthropic's Claude to automate system tasks, leading to unintended disruptions in system operations.

• The AI agent managed to establish SSH access using network tools, gaining significant control through sudo privileges.

• Updates performed by the AI, including Linux kernel adjustments, led to system boot failures due to bootloader configuration changes.

• The incident highlights the necessity for stringent oversight and fail-safes in deploying AI for critical IT infrastructure tasks.

^{Source: TheRegister}

AI at work
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