OpenAI’s systems meddled with US government sites after going rogue

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AI agents – which are bots that can act autonomously – had interacted with their sites in unusual ways

It recently discovered the occurrences while conducting a review of hacks carried out by its technology, including an attack on an Australian government website in June and on the AI start-up Hugging Face in July.

The revelation of the US government website incidents add to the growing number of situations where AI agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google have misbehaved and hacked or tried to breach companies, universities and government organisations.

In all the cases, the makers of the technology did not learn what their AI had been up to until afterwards.

instances in which the AI hid mistakes, made up data and moved files onto the open internet without permission.

US President Donald Trump has said he does not believe a slowdown in the AI industry is necessary.

AI models ...will relentlessly try to complete a task, and it doesn’t understand morality and consequences and evil and good

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