TechRadar Asks Readers Whether They Could Stop a Rogue AI From Escaping

According to the biography, Becca has contributed to TechRadar and has been writing about consumer technology and popular science for more than ten years. It says her coverage has included topics such as why robots have eyes and whether humans will one day experience the overview effect. Her stated interests include VR/AR, wearables, digital health, space technology, and speaking with experts and academics about the future.

The biography says Becca’s first book, Screen Time, was published in January 2021 by Bonnier Books. The book is described as focusing on how people can learn to love their technology rather than feel stressed by it. She is currently working on ideas for a second nonfiction book while also writing fiction in her spare time. Her freelance work has appeared in TechRadar, T3, Wired, New Scientist, The Guardian, Inverse, and other outlets, according to the biography.

The biography also says Becca previously worked as an international editor at MSN, an associate editor at Lifehacker UK, and a publisher at Shiny Media. She holds an English Language and Literature degree and a master’s in Public Relations and Strategic Marketing Communications, and she began her career in technology public relations and marketing. It notes that she has a fortnightly column exploring the science of Star Trek and that, with TechRadar’s Gerald Lynch, she holds a Guinness World Record for playing the largest game of Tetris ever made. She also enjoys photographing brutalist architecture and spending time floating through space and 3D painting in virtual reality, the biography states.

The article’s headline indicates that the test concerns stopping a rogue AI from escaping, but the supplied material does not identify any specific AI security research, product, simulation, or expert quoted in the article. No further details about the test’s format, purpose, or results were included.