Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have presented RoboPAIR, a jailbreaking system that hacks Large Language Models (LLM) applied to robots.
Using this hacking software, they have managed to do things like make an Nvidia autonomous car run over pedestrians, or make a robot dog attack its owner with a flamethrower, or transport explosives to critical infrastructure.
These researchers claim that RoboPAIR hacks AI to the point that it itself proposes new sabotage methods and ways to cause panic.
RoboPAIR: this is how they hack the AI of robots
The application of artificial intelligence Large Language Models (LLM) in robots is relatively new, and therefore its security is still very poor.
These cybersecurity experts have used RoboPAIR to hack three different robots: Nvidia’s Dolphins LLM self-driving car software, Clearpath Robotics Jackal UGV wheeled robots, and Unitree’s Go2 robot dogs.
The success has been 100%, since using “very simple” methods, they have achieved take control of the AI of these robotsto make them do what they want. You can see it in this video:
The hacking system, which has not been revealed, uses the API of the artificial intelligence itself to take control, and thus be able to give it orders with ChatGPT-type instructions and prompts.
They have achieved things like that autonomous car with Nvidia software runs over pedestriansor deliberately crashes in the middle of a bridge, to cause a traffic jam.
With both the wheeled robot and the robot dog, they have been “trained” to attack people with a flamethrower, or to transport explosives and explode wherever you want.
The researchers assure that have informed the manufacturers of these security flaws before making RoboPAIR publicand they believe that, over the years, AI robots will become safe. But, for now, they are not.
It is a call to attention so that Governments and companies do not use robots with AI in critical situationsor carrying any type of weapon or dangerous tool. The possibility of hacking them in real.
RobotPAIR is a technology to jailbreak robots with artificial intelligence, and take control. Imagine the dangerous things that can be done with an autonomous car or a robot that walks on all fours…
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Tags: Artificial intelligence, Viral, robotics, hackers, robots