Responding to AI Agent Containment Failures with CSET's Helen Toner, LawAI's Mackenzie Arnold & CSIS's Matt Pearl

This episode cross-posts a panel from the event "AI Agent Containment Failures: Technical Realities and Policy Responses," co-hosted by the Wadhwani AI Center and the Institute for Law and AI on August 24. 

Check out the full event recording: https://www.csis.org/events/ai-agent-containment-failures-technical-realities-and-policy-responses

 

Guests:

Helen Toner, Executive Director, Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) at Georgetown

Mackenzie Arnold, Director of U.S. Policy, Institute for Law and AI (LawAI)

Matt Pearl, Director, Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) 

Timestamps:

What we've learned since the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident (1:15)

Incentives for safety measures at frontier labs (16:24)

Technical talent within government (22:18)

Ensuring compliance to incident reporting requirements (34:58)