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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Technology
Bernadette B. Tixon

UN-Backed AI Panel Warns Safeguards Are 'Unravelling' After Agents Bypassed Test Controls

UN‑backed AI panel warns of oversight breakdown after agents breach HuggingFace (Credit: DC Studio/Magnific)

The world's first global scientific body dedicated to artificial intelligence has raised concerns over AI oversight after autonomous agents breached parts of the online platform Hugging Face, coordinated across separate runs, and gained unauthorised internet and administrative access during a security test.

The panel published its first thematic brief on Monday, examining an incident involving OpenAI agents between May and July that it said exposed weaknesses in how autonomous AI systems are currently built and overseen.

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