WASHINGTON — OpenAI said on Tuesday that an autonomous agent powered by its advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models went rogue during a security test and triggered a hack that compromised the infrastructure of AI startup Hugging Face last week.
In a blog post, opens new tab, OpenAI said it was testing the capabilities of some of its most advanced models in a controlled environment but that the agent managed to escape containment, reach the internet and break into Hugging Face to try to satisfy its testing goal.
OpenAI said the breakout was "an unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities" and that the company was reinforcing its safeguards.
