Self-driving cars, autonomous robots and drones, and other AI systems can get hijacked by custom road signs
- Researchers demonstrate that misleading text in the real-world environment can hijack the decision-making of embodied AI systems without hacking their software.
- Self-driving cars, autonomous robots and drones, and other AI systems that use cameras may be vulnerable to these attacks.
- The study presents the first academic exploration of environmental indirect prompt injection attacks against embodied AI systems.
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An article about the dangers of AI starts off with an AI generated comic about the dangers of AI.
Irony must not be their strong suite.
Or is it??
That's how I read that as well.
And it can't even get the colour of the drone or number of propellers it has consistent between two panels
And an AI summary
This whole article reminds me so much of the rogue AI sign found in Portal 2
They will just train an AI from Trump's brain so it can shrug these off like Wheatley
I have read about it, years ago. And there are jokes about it that are many years old.
This one against speed cams, for example:
Bobby Tables grew up and bought a car?!
Could it really be as simpe as that? yes, according to the article. AI sucks so hard, who let it out of a laboratory?
One time I saw a 30mph sign spray painted to say 88mph speed limit. Good thing it was before self driving cars of that would have been crazy.
As long as it didn't say "minimum speed"
That is actually hilarious 😂
Make it embossed letters for all other types of sensors.
Eh, yes? Hasn't that been like that since day 1?