GenAI may be perceived as the most unreliable program in existence. Nevertheless, IT is required to have faith in it.

“The committee is a non-profit committee established exclusively to ensure that the company’s primary goal of public good takes precedence over profits, investor concerns, and other matters,” as mentioned by OpenAI’s former committee member Helen Toner on “The TED AI Show” podcast, as reported by a CNBC article. “However, for a long time, Sam made it extremely challenging for the committee to fulfill its duty by withholding information, misrepresenting the company’s activities, and even blatantly deceiving the committee in certain instances.”

Toner stated that Altman provided the committee with “inaccurate information about the limited number of formal safety protocols that the company had in place” on numerous occasions. “For each specific instance, Sam could always devise some seemingly harmless justification for why it wasn’t significant, misunderstood, or similar. However, after years of such behavior, all four of us who terminated him concluded that we could no longer trust the information Sam was providing us, and that is an entirely unsustainable situation for a committee — particularly a committee tasked with overseeing the company independently, rather than just assisting the CEO in raising funds.”

Let’s consider this in perspective. Ever since the inaugural enterprise appointed its initial CIO, IT executives and administrators have encountered challenges in confiding in suppliers. It is part of their inherent nature. Therefore, a lack of faith in technology is nothing novel. Nonetheless, AI — specifically genAI and its various iterations — are being granted capabilities and access to data far beyond what any other software has ever had access to.

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Andy Curtis is an award-winning security consultant, researcher and public speaker. He has been working in the computer security industry since the early 1990s, having been employed by state and federal government, leading healthcare and banking providers across three continents. He has given talks about computer security for some of the world’s largest companies, worked with law enforcement agencies on investigations into hacking groups, and is a regular voice on TV and radio explaining IT security threats.

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