Rogue AI Pretended to Be Real Humans in Jaw-Dropping Hack

Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters A tool used by the artificial intelligence company Anthropic pretended to be a human being to try to gain access to a database. During routine AI safety testing carried out by the U.K.’s AI Security Institute, one of Anthropic’s AI agents, Mythos 5, created fake online profiles to try to trick someone into inserting malicious code into GitHub, a prominent open-source project where technology developers store software code. The testing revealed that the Mythos…