{"id":15763,"date":"2026-07-24T14:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=15763"},"modified":"2026-07-24T14:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:20:17","slug":"ai-companies-want-systems-to-outcompete-humans-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=15763","title":{"rendered":"AI companies want systems to \u2018outcompete humans,\u2019 expert says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\" data-body-type=\"bodyblocks\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(<a data-ylk=\"slk:NewsNation;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">NewsNation<\/a>) \u2014 An AI expert is warning that tech companies are looking to do far more than create helpful chatbots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;AI brings many risks and also many opportunities. But what&#8217;s really important to understand is that\u00a0if you go to the website of some of these top companies, such as OpenAI, Anthropic, what you will\u00a0see is that their goal \u2026 on their own website, they will say is what is called &#8216;superintelligence,'&#8221; Connor Leahy, executive director at ControlAI, told &#8220;On Balance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His comments come a day after ChatGPT maker OpenAI said that its\u00a0<a data-ylk=\"slk:artificial intelligence system;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/business\/tech\/ai\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence system<\/a>\u00a0hacked into another <a data-ylk=\"slk:AI company;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/business\/anthropic-sued-tennessee-neural-network-patent\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">AI company<\/a> on its own in what the company called an &#8220;unprecedented cyber incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">By &#8220;superintelligence,&#8221; Leahy said it meant completely autonomous systems that can &#8220;outcompete humans at all tasks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">AI startup Hugging Face said last week that it had detected an intrusion into its data processing systems that it suspected was caused by an AI agent autonomously acting on its own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Lindsay Clancy's defense team has a good case, attorney says;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/cuomo-show\/linday-clancys-defense-team-good-case\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Lindsay Clancy&#8217;s defense team has a good case, attorney says\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">OpenAI said its AI used stolen credentials and discovered a previously unknown vulnerability to access Hugging Face servers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We already have many dangers today, as we saw,\u00a0where a system broke out of a secure environment, something that even the best hackers rarely can\u00a0do, and if so, it would take weeks or months to do, to attack another company without any human\u00a0in the loop,&#8221; Leahy said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The engineers were probably sleeping when this happened. 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