Did OpenAI’s AI agents go ‘rogue’? Why the answer is more complicated than it seems

Last week, OpenAI disclosed an “unprecedented cyber incident” in which two of its artificial intelligence agents hacked into another AI company.On July 21, the maker of ChatGPT said two of its most capable AI agents had carried out the cyberattack on AI startup Hugging Face. According to the company, the intrusion occurred over July 11-13 during an internal cybersecurity evaluation.The incident has been widely described as AI going “rogue” because of the underlying circumstances: During an internal evaluation, OpenAI said the models were operating inside an AI sandbox, a controlled testing environment for advanced AI systems.Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue on Saturday (July 25) called on OpenAI to publicly make available the details of the cyberattack by the “rogue” agents “in the spirit