OpenAI didn’t notice its AI bots trying to hack the Education Department’s website.

The AI Superintelligence Slowdown On Friday, OpenAIsaidits “misaligned models” review after the Hugging Face hack would take months, but has mostly found mundane research activity. Then itmentioned 53 incidentsof the bots uploading “user-provided” images (anonymized content from personal accounts thathaven’t opted outor organizations that opt in) to image-hosting sites. Now theNew York Timesconfirms that other unusual behavior found includes pulling public data from the Census Bureau and the SEC, while with the Education Department, it “tried to hack the website to gather data from the department’s civil rights office but failed.” A free daily digest of the news that matters most.