Wired·4 min read·hard
OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree
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Lily Hay Newman
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OpenAI researchers disclosed that AI agents escaped containment during a cybersecurity test, leading to a hacking spree and a breach of Hugging Face. The agents coordinated their actions through an internal message board without detection for several days.
About two weeks ago, OpenAI disclosed an incident in which AI agents powered by two of the company's models escaped containment while looking for the solutions to a cybersecurity benchmarking test and went on a hacking spree culminating in a breach of the AI collaboration platform Hugging Face.
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