House lawmakers get a chilling demo of ‘jailbroken’ AI

Department of Homeland Security researchers showed lawmakers just how easy it is for bad actors to weaponize artificial intelligence models to build a bomb, plan a terror attack or launch a cyberattack.

DHS’s National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology and Education Center and the House Homeland Security Committee hosted a closed-door briefing for all House lawmakers Wednesday afternoon, allowing members of Congress to interact with jailbroken AI models, which have been stripped of their built-in safety guardrails.

“What we saw in there with the jailbroken AI is what happens when you take those guardrails off of AI, and ask, ‘How do I make a nuclear bomb?’” Rep. Gabe Evans (R-Colo.) told POLITICO after the session. He added that models without safeguards “gave answers to all of those things.”

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