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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Shakeel Hashim

OpenAI’s rogue agents are a wake-up call to risks posed by artificial intelligence

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Open AI's logo at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona on 26 February 2024. Photograph: Pau Barrena/AFP/Getty Images

Last week Hugging Face – a company that hosts artificial intelligence models and datasets – was hacked.

After it reported the incident to law enforcement, few would have predicted what came next: the culprits were revealed to be AI agents from OpenAI, which had broken out of containment and were acting of their own accord.

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