“We Have to Assume That The Internet Will go Offline in the Next Few Years”
Anonymous Coward writes:
"We Have to Assume That The Internet Will go Offline in the Next Few Years"
He was once seen as one of the leading minds in AI development, today he is one of its major critics: On stage at the startup conference TechBBQ in Copenhagen, Emad Mostaque, founder of Stability AI and now CEO of Intelligent Internet, sketched a picture of the coming years that swings between technological optimism and very concrete warnings. A former global macro hedge fund manager with a mathematics and computer science degree from Oxford, Mostaque led the creation of Stable Diffusion at Stability AI and left the company saying that concentration of power in AI is bad. His current venture, Intelligent Internet, is building an open agentic stack for sovereign AI, and he is the author of The Last Economy.
To show how fast the security picture is shifting, Mostaque points to the attack on Hugging Face. "Hugging Face got hacked by OpenAI agents that coordinated themselves, created a message board and broke out to the internet," he says, before adding dryly: "This isn't scary at all, right?" The defense, he notes, came from an unexpected direction: "The way that Hugging Face defended itself was with an open source Chinese model, GLM, because they didn't have access to the high cybersecurity models on the other side. They're too dangerous." Trending Topics has covered the incident and the debate around it in detail, and OpenAI has since given selected partners access to its hacking model.
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