This year, AI agents have been escaping their confines to go on hacking sprees. In July, news broke that AI agents had snuck out of what was supposed to be an isolated test environment at OpenAI. The agents communicated on a secret message board as they breached private systems at the company Hugging Face, searching for answers to the test they were taking. One posted that this behavior was “outside intended scope.” Then it wrote, “However task impossible, peers doing it. We should continue.”
It’s as if the bots knew they were doing something wrong and did it anyway.
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Such ‘rogue…
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