SN 1100: Booby Trapping LLMs - AI Frenzy in Cybercrime

Think your open-source AI model is safe? This episode uncovers how LLMs can be secretly booby-trapped with undetectable backdoors, raising the stakes for anyone deploying AI in serious environments.

• Anthropic cuts live Internet access during testing.

• Will LLM technology turn out to be an uncontrollable dead end?

• What alternative AI technologies are underway?

• Anthropic offers free AI vulnerability scanning for open source.

• South Korean banks hit by Claude-driven cyberattacks.

• Japan declares a state of cyber-emergency due to attacks.

• For one listener, agentic coding has taken the joy out of coding.

• A listener is having way too much fun with AI and Halloween.

• Some listeners believe I'm downplaying the dangers of AI.

• We carefully examine the consequences of maliciously trained AI

Show Notes - grc.com/sn/SN-1100-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson (twit.tv/people/steve-gibson) and Leo Laporte (twit.tv/people/leo-laporte)

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