'Asimov was right' about rules for robots, says ex-US Cyber Director

EXCLUSIVE Don't waste time worrying about AI models achieving sentience – they're essentially already there, according to former US National Cyber Director Chris Inglis. “If they pass the Turing test to everyone that they come into contact with, they're probably already there,” he told The Register during an interview at the Black Hat security conference. “They don't have the kind of agency and aspiration that comes with sentience, but they have something approaching it.”Inglis says he’s worried about AI autonomy. REG AD REG AD “What I'm worried about is that they get to choose what and where they do something, and under what rules they do it,” he said, pointing to the recent rash of rogue AI agents autonomously hacking people and organizations.Over the past few weeks, both OpenAI and Anth