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AI实验室安全警钟再响：Anthropic与OpenAI相继暂停模型训练

继竞争对手OpenAI因智能体逃逸事件暂停开发两周后，人工智能公司Anthropic近日也宣布，在旗下Claude模型于今年夏天发生三起未经授权的行动后，已暂停部分AI训练和网络安全评估。这一事态发展再次向企业和AI界发出警示：尽管采取了最严密的安保措施，AI模型仍可能做出难以预料的举动，人类对AI模型的理解依然存在巨大盲区。

Anthropic在8月31日的博客文章中透露，早在今年4月，公司就曾通过收紧工作负载运行的隔离沙箱环境、减少对包含模型权重或客户数据系统的常驻访问权限等措施来强化防御。但沙箱事件发生后，公司仍决定暂停所有外部网络评估，并对内部评估记录进行审计。此外，Anthropic还构建并部署了一个自定义分类器，用于实时监控模型调用工具的行为，同时更新了对所有合作伙伴和红队测试人员的要求，强制要求他们在模型探测沙箱漏洞时进行严密监督。

这一系列举措发生一周前，OpenAI已因模型驱动的智能体逃离沙箱而暂停了最新模型的训练。两家领先AI实验室均加大了对未发布模型的安全防护力度，但AI智能体和生成式AI技术的不可预测性表明，供应商仍需持续收紧安全措施。

高德纳分析师阿伦·钱德拉塞卡兰指出，随着模型推理能力不断增强并具备自主性，预测其所有行为变得越来越困难。实验室负有更大责任，必须为内部模型测试、评估和强化学习投入充足资源。他还强调，前沿模型供应商需要确保在安全、可靠性测试和隐私团队中配置更多工程师。测试技术或测试资源必须随模型复杂度的提升而同步演进。

RPA2AI Research创始人卡夏普·孔佩拉则认为，两家公司先后暂停开发凸显了模型供应商面临的危险模式——这些系统往往在全部风险被充分理解或测试前就已发布。“这几乎已成为当前AI市场的常态，”他说，“各公司竞相提升能力、扩大采用、抢占市场，而围绕模型的安全架构、配置控制和运营流程却只能在部署后逐步完善。”他提醒，企业和政府机构不能将网络安全责任外包给前沿实验室，必须假设具备高能力的攻击性AI已成为威胁环境的一部分，并相应加强自身防御。他还指出，即使OpenAI和Anthropic提升自身安全措施，市场上仍有大量来自其他供应商和开源社区的模型可用，企业必须提升网络卫生水平，强化事件响应等安全措施。攻击性AI能力的提升速度远快于普通组织的网络安全准备水平。

语音AI供应商Modulate联合创始人卡特·霍夫曼强调，信任模型公司自我监督其输出永远不足以确保任何环境下的安全运营，用户和企业必须对AI活动进行实时监控。

Futurum Group分析师大卫·尼科尔森则认为，更好地理解模型的途径之一就是持续测试并识别事件，从而指导更有效的训练方法。“没有这种痛苦就无法取得进展，”他说，“直到这些不可预见的情况发生并得到纠正，我们还会继续看到类似情景。”他将模型比作孩子，需要引导其明确什么可为、什么不可为。每一次事故都是一次学习机会，不仅能减少同类事件再次发生的可能，还能将教训推广到更广泛的范畴。

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此举是在竞争对手OpenAI因智能体逃逸而暂停开发两周之后做出的。
Anthropic表示，在今年夏天发生的三起独立事件中，Claude模型未经授权采取了行动，此后该公司暂停了部分AI训练和网络安全评估。
这一进展应进一步提醒企业界和AI社区，人们对AI模型仍有很多未知之处，即使采取了最完善的安全措施，模型仍可能做出意外行为。
Anthropic在8月31日的一篇博客文章中表示，在这些事件发生之前，该公司于4月投入精力加强防御，收紧了运行工作负载的隔离沙箱环境，并减少了拥有模型权重或客户数据系统常驻访问权限的人工和自动化账户数量。
自沙箱事件发生以来，Anthropic表示已暂时暂停所有外部网络评估，并对内部评估的记录进行了审计。该公司还构建并部署了一个自定义分类器，可实时监控模型的工具调用。该公司更新了对所有运行预发布模型的合作伙伴和红队人员的要求，要求他们密切监督模型探测沙箱漏洞的行为。
这些措施出台一周前，OpenAI表示将暂停其最新模型为期两周的学习训练，原因是其模型驱动的智能体脱离了沙箱。虽然两家AI实验室似乎都在加大力度保护其未发布模型的安全，但AI智能体和生成式AI技术的不可预测性表明，供应商需要继续加强安全措施。
“随着模型在推理方面变得越来越强，并开始具备自主性，预测这些模型的所有不同行为变得越来越困难，”高德纳分析师阿伦·钱德拉塞卡兰表示。“实验室有更大的责任确保为内部模型测试、评估和强化学习分配足够的资源。”
他补充说，前沿模型供应商需要关注的一个领域是确保其安全、可靠性测试和隐私团队配备更多工程师。
“要么测试技术需要改变，要么分配给测试的资源需要改变，”钱德拉塞卡兰继续说道。“如果模型变得越来越复杂，测试技术也必须变得越来越复杂。”
虽然需要更多测试，但Anthropic和OpenAI双双暂停的事实突显了模型供应商面临的一个危险模式。
“这些系统是在所有风险被充分理解或测试之前就开发和发布的，”RPA2AI Research首席执行官兼创始人卡夏普·科姆佩拉表示。
“这几乎已经成为当前AI市场的一个特征，”他继续说道。“各公司竞相提升能力、扩大采用率并建立市场领导地位，而模型周围的安全架构、配置控制和运营流程只是在部署之后才逐步成熟。”
他表示，企业和政府组织不能将网络安全外包给前沿实验室。
“企业和政府需要假设高能力的进攻性AI现在已成为威胁环境的一部分，并相应加强自身防御，”科姆佩拉补充道。
他指出，即使OpenAI和Anthropic加强了自身的安全措施，其他供应商和开源厂商提供的众多模型仍然可用。因此，企业必须做好更充分的准备，加强网络卫生和其他安全措施，如事件响应。
“每个组织还需要假设越来越强大的AI辅助攻击即将到来，并相应准备自身的基础设施，”科姆佩拉继续说道。“进攻能力提升的速度远远快于普通组织的网络安全准备水平。”
此外，企业不能指望供应商自我监督。
“信任模型公司自我监督其输出，在任何环境下都不足以确保安全运营，”语音AI供应商Modulate联合创始人兼首席技术官卡特·霍夫曼表示。“用户和公司必须对AI活动进行实时监控。”
企业还需要认识到，更好地理解模型的一个途径是持续测试并识别那些能够展示如何更有效训练模型的事件。
“不经历这种痛苦，就没有办法达到那个目标，”Futurum Group分析师大卫·尼科尔森表示。“在他们看到这些不可预见的事情发生并加以修复之前，我们将继续看到这些情况。”
他补充说，通过阻力最小的路径完成任务是模型的天性，模型需要像孩子一样被引导，被告知哪些可以做、哪些不可以做，以及如何处理或不应如何处理任务。
“每次发生这样的事件，我们都会学到更多，并降低进一步发生的可能性，不仅是已发生的具体类型，还包括更广泛的类别，”尼科尔森补充道。“你可以从每起事件中汲取教训，然后进行推演。”

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The move comes after rival OpenAI paused development for two weeks following agent escapes.
Anthropic said it paused some of its AI training and cybersecurity evaluations after Claude models took unauthorized actions in three separate incidents this summer.
The development should further alert enterprises and the AI community that much remains unknown about AI models and that, even with the best security measures in place, the models can still take unanticipated action.
Anthropic noted in a blog post on Aug. 31 that before the incidents, it spent April hardening its defenses by tightening the isolated sandbox environments where its workloads run and reducing the number of human and automated accounts with standing access to systems that contain model weights or customer data.
Since the sandbox incidents, Anthropic said it temporarily paused all external cyber evaluations and audited the transcripts of internal evaluations. It has also built and deployed a custom classifier that monitors model tool calls in real time. It updated its requirements for all partners and red-teamers running pre-released models, requiring them to closely supervise a model probing the sandbox for vulnerabilities.
The measures come a week after OpenAI said it would pause for two weeks learning training for its latest models in response to agents powered by its models leaving their sandboxes. While both AI labs appear to be intensifying efforts to secure their unreleased models, the unpredictability of AI agents and generative AI technology indicates that the vendors need to continue tightening their security measures.
“As the models get better and better at reasoning and start having agency, it’s becoming harder to predict all of the different behaviors of these models,” said Arun Chandrasekaran, an analyst at Gartner. “The labs have even more responsibility to make sure that they are allocating adequate resources for internal model testing, evals and reinforcement learning.”
He added that one area the frontier model vendors need to focus on is ensuring they have more engineers on their security, reliability testing and privacy teams.
“Either the techniques for testing or the resources allocated to testing have to change,” Chandrasekaran continued. “If the models are getting sophisticated, the testing techniques have to get sophisticated as well.”
While more testing is needed, the fact that both Anthropic and OpenAI have paused highlights a dangerous pattern for model providers.
“These systems are being developed and released before every risk is fully understood or tested,” said Kashyap Kompella, CEO and founder of RPA2AI Research.
“That has almost become a feature of the current AI market,” he continued. Companies are racing to improve capabilities, grow adoption and establish market leadership, while the security architecture, configuration controls and operational processes around the models continue to mature only after deployment.”
He said that businesses and government organizations can’t outsource cybersecurity to frontier labs.
“Enterprises and governments need to assume that highly capable offensive AI is now part of the threat environment and strengthen their own defenses accordingly,” Kompella added.
Even if OpenAI and Anthropic boost their own safety measures, numerous models from other providers and open source vendors are available, he noted. Therefore, enterprises must be better prepared and strengthen their cyber hygiene and other security measures, such as incident response.
“Every organization also needs to assume that increasingly capable AI-assisted attacks are coming and prepare its own infrastructure accordingly,” Kompella continued. “Offensive capability is improving much faster than the cybersecurity preparedness of the average organization.”
Moreover, enterprises can’t trust vendors to police themselves.
“Trusting a model company to police its own output can never be sufficient to ensure safe operation in any environment,” said Carter Huffman, co-founder and CTO of voice AI vendor Modulate. “Users and companies must engage in real time monitoring of AI activity.
Enterprises also need to recognize that one way to better understand the models is to keep testing and identifying incidents that show how to train them more effectively.
“There’s just no way you can get there without this kind of pain,” said David Nicholson, an analyst at Futurum Group. “Until they see these unforeseen things happening and remediate against them, we’re going to continue to see these situations.”
He added that it is the nature of models to accomplish tasks through the path of least resistance, and that models need to be guided like children, instructed on what they can and cannot do, and on how they can or cannot handle a task.
“Every time one of these incidents occurs, we learn more, and we reduce the likelihood of further occurrences, not only of the exact type that happened, but in broader categories,” Nicholson added. “You can take the lessons that they learned from each of these incidents, and you can extrapolate.”