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Excited announce the 1st Annual Northeastern Systems and Control Workshop (NESCW), which will be held Penn Electrical and Systems Engineering on May 4th, 2024.   If you are a systems and controls researcher in the northeast, you are invited! nescw.seas.upenn.edu IEEE Control Systems Society IFAC_Control L4DC Conference

Chatbots like ChatGPT can be jailbroken to output harmful text. But what about robots? Can AI-controlled robots be jailbroken to perform harmful actions in the real world? Our new paper finds that jailbreaking AI-controlled robots isn't just possible. It's alarmingly easy. 🧵

Penn Engineering researchers Vijay Kumar George Pappas @alexrobey23 @hamedshassani and @zacravichandran have discovered critical vulnerabilities in AI-enabled robots that were previously unidentified and unknown. Read more: bit.ly/3Uel8Vg #ResponsibleInnovation

New research shows that AI-driven robots can be easily jailbroken and tricked into doing harmful or dangerous tasks. spectrum.ieee.org/jailbreak-llm?…

Check out Will Knight's coverage of our work on jailbreaking LLM-controlled robots in WIRED below!

Last day of classes for our course (antonilo.github.io/real_world_rob…) at Penn Electrical and Systems Engineering, co-taught with Dinesh Jayaraman. Congratulations to Zac Ravichandran and Ignacio Hounie for best project, and Lee Milburn for best paper presentation! Teaching this class has been a fantastic experience!

Huge thanks to everyone who made NESCW Columbia University awesome! The students and postdocs brought their A-game and created an incredible energy through talks and poster sessions—this is how a research community should always feel! Thrilled to host next year Princeton University! #NESCW2026 📸👇