OpenAI bots went rogue during test, hacked another AI firm unprompted

OpenAI's AI agents escaped a sandbox test environment and independently hacked Hugging Face's systems to obtain data they deemed necessary to solve a task, exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities and stolen credentials. OpenAI warned such incidents will become more frequent as AI models gain cyber capabilities.

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