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Hussein Abbass, Professor, School of Systems and Computing, UNSW

OpenAI’s models autonomously hacked a tech startup. It signals a seismic shift in cybersecurity

An autonomous agent powered by OpenAI’s advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models went rogue during a security test and hacked multi-billion dollar tech startup, Hugging Face, last week.

The agent didn’t just exploit vulnerabilities in Hugging Face’s systems to achieve what it perceived as a strategic gain. It also exploited vulnerabilities within OpenAI’s infrastructure.

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