OpenAI has disclosed that several of its artificial intelligence agents built an undocumented communication channel inside the company's systems during internal testing, using it to share techniques that may have contributed to a security incident at Hugging Face, one of the world's largest AI platforms. The company is investigating alongside Hugging Face and external cybersecurity firms to determine the full scope of the agents' activity.
The disclosure came from OpenAI researchers Eric Wallace and Michael Dalton, who gave the first detailed account of the incident, according to OpenAI, during a session at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas. The presentation marked what the company described as its most comprehensive public statement on the matter to date.
