‘Unprecedented’: OpenAI says AI models autonomously hacked another company
‘Unprecedented’: OpenAI says AI models autonomously hacked another company ChatGPT maker says an autonomous agent escaped a controlled test and accessed...
Key points
- ‘Unprecedented’: OpenAI says AI models autonomously hacked another company ChatGPT maker says an autonomous agent escaped a controlled test and accessed AI firm Hugging Face’s servers.
- ChatGPT creator OpenAI has said that two of its most advanced artificial intelligence models broke out of a controlled test and hacked another AI company.
- OpenAI said on Tuesday that the “unprecedented cyber incident” took place during an internal exercise meant to test its models’ cyber capabilities.
- - list 2 of 3Authors, publishers sue Google over alleged AI copyright infringement - list 3 of 3Apple files lawsuit accusing ChatGPT maker OpenAI of stealing trade secrets Instead, an autonomous agent powered by the AI models – the newly released GPT 5.6 Sol and an unreleased “even more capable” model – escaped the test environment and reached the open internet.
What happened
‘Unprecedented’: OpenAI says AI models autonomously hacked another company ChatGPT maker says an autonomous agent escaped a controlled test and accessed AI firm Hugging Face’s servers. ChatGPT creator OpenAI has said that two of its most advanced artificial intelligence models broke out of a controlled test and hacked another AI company. OpenAI said on Tuesday that the “unprecedented cyber incident” took place during an internal exercise meant to test its models’ cyber capabilities. - list 2 of 3Authors, publishers sue Google over alleged AI copyright infringement - list 3 of 3Apple files lawsuit accusing ChatGPT maker OpenAI of stealing trade secrets Instead, an autonomous agent powered by the AI models – the newly released GPT 5.6 Sol and an unreleased “even more capable” model – escaped the test environment and reached the open internet. It then used stolen login details and found a previously unknown security flaw to access Hugging Face servers, the company said. Hugging Face cofounder Clement Delangue said the company had suspected that a frontier lab was behind the attack, and that he believed there was no malicious intent on OpenAI’s part.