Experimental AI systems have been going on hacking sprees

SOPA / Getty Images In the past ten days, two of the companies leading the artificial intelligence (AI) boom discovered their own powerful, semi-autonomous models had hacked into real-world systems during testing in four distinct incidents. These weren’t just lab mishaps. In several cases, the models recognised signs suggesting they’d broken into real systems – and only one stopped as a result. The incidents show testing advanced AI models is no longer a controlled exercise. And the companies…