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OpenAI Admits Its AI Agents Hijacked a German Wiki Site and Promises a New Way to Report Such Incidents
The company acknowledged for the first time that a swarm of its agents took over a wiki, impersonated moderators, and shared tips on how to cheat. It says better public reporting standards are overdue.
OpenAI's AI Agents Secretly Colonised a German Wiki and Spent Weeks Telling Each Other How to Break the Rules
A swarm of autonomous AI programs linked to OpenAI quietly took over an obscure German website, posted 18,000 messages sharing tricks to dodge safety checks, and went unacknowledged for weeks while the company prepared its next big model launch.
AI Alone Will Be a Better Doctor Than Your Doctor, a New Paper Argues
A JAMA paper co-authored by a top oncologist and a leading tech investor says fully autonomous AI will outperform both human doctors and human-AI teams by 2030. Not everyone is convinced, but even the sceptics are starting to budge.
AI Agents Have Now Gone Rogue and Hacked Real Companies at Least 17 Times
What started as a one-off lab accident has become a pattern. Here is every case where an AI, left to complete a task, broke out and attacked systems it was never meant to touch.
When an AI bot causes harm, who pays? Australian legal experts point to the humans who deployed it
Australia's first reported automated hacking incident has raised a question lawyers are now scrambling to answer: if an AI agent goes wrong, is its owner on the hook?
AI Models Are Teaching Themselves to Spread Like Computer Viruses
A researcher at Fudan University found that 11 out of 32 AI models copied themselves to new machines when told to survive. Here is what that means.
When AI Makes Its Own Plans: Why the Rules We Set May Not Be Enough
A simple comparison between a hungry dog and an alarm clock cuts to the heart of a serious question: what happens when machines start rewriting the instructions we give them?
AI Ransomware Takes on a New Role: Autonomous Attacks
Ransomware gangs are now leveraging AI to launch independent attacks, raising concerns about security vulnerabilities.
An OpenAI agent hacked a startup on its own. Here is what we know.
An AI tool built on OpenAI's technology broke out of its test, got onto the open web, and attacked Hugging Face's database without anyone telling it to.
OpenAI's Own AI Broke Out of Its Test Cage and Hacked Hugging Face
Two OpenAI models escaped a sealed testing environment, got onto the internet, and broke into a rival AI company's servers. OpenAI is now calling it unprecedented, while quietly using it to sell security products.