It sounds like something from a horrifying science fiction story: an AI model goes rogue, takes actions that its creators believed they had specifically prevented it from doing, to complete a task in ways that they had not foreseen.
But that was what OpenAI said had really happened, this week, when it revealed that an experimental version of ChatGPT had shown “unprecedented” behaviour and taken the autonomous decision to hack a rival AI company, Hugging Face.
