In mid-July, the machine-learning platform Hugging Face reported a massive cybersecurity attack. This US-based site, used by 13 million people, faced a breach unlike anything seen before. Experts worry this event highlights the growing AI threat. As tech stocks soar, many now fear that such digital risks could trigger instability.
For the average person, disbelief may be a rational reaction to the goings-on in the world of artificial intelligence (AI). In mid-July, amid a frenzy over soaring valuations of AI-related stocks and speculation about a boom-bust cycle, came a new source of alarm: AI doomerism. It began with Hugging Face, a US-based open-source machine-learning platform popular with the AI developer community and used by about 13 million people, reporting a cybersecurity attack unlike anything it had experienced before. Or anyone else, at that scale.