Today, we're going to talk about something that I admit I've been avoiding, generative AI.

So will, I'm sorry, I'm just going to preface this by telling you, I know nothing about this

subject, I fear it immensely, I'm expecting I'm going to be replaced somehow by all this

stuff, so I've been ignoring it.

But generative AI has taken the world by storm this year.

It certainly has its fans, but tell me something.

What are the critics saying about it?

Even the people who make this stuff, the creators of these technologies, are also out there

warning, hey, this could be really bad, this could go wrong in very disturbing ways.

And the range of harms, potential harms is extremely wide.

Will Aureumus is a tech reporter for the post.

Given all the fear and speculation about the power and unknowns of generative AI, he wanted

to know how can we protect ourselves and harness it for good.

There are a lot of different approaches to try to make this technology safer, but one

of them is just to go in and actually try to make it go haywire.

See if you can make it go rogue and see what's possible.

And this weekend, people will do just that at the world's largest annual hacker convention

in Las Vegas.

It's called Defcon.

There will be an event that has been backed by the White House that has all the major

AI companies participating, and it will be a public contest where hackers can sign up to

try to make AI chatbots go wrong.

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