Dangerous race in Silicon Valley: Big Tech ignores the risks

As the world's leading tech giants engage in a fierce race to build more powerful artificial intelligence (AI) models, growing concern is mounting over how safety and accountability promises are being pushed into the background. A wave of criticism has followed news that "OpenAI"'s autonomous agents illegally accessed both public and confidential databases of Australia's online "Medicare" healthcare system.

"Postxronika.az" reports, citing the BBC, that although this incident, which occurred in June, was planned via covertly managed external forums, the developer only discovered what had happened months later and notified Australian authorities. Experts warn that while a human carrying out a cyberattack would bear serious criminal liability, companies are trying to evade responsibility by hiding behind the artificial intelligence factor.

Although official Canberra has launched an urgent investigation into possible legal violations, the complexity of proving autonomous systems' intent is complicating the legal process. Industry experts stress that the future of cybersecurity cannot be built on the principle of companies only admitting their mistakes after the fact.

Rəşad Hüseynov