Hugging Face CEO calls hack by rogue OpenAI model "very weird and unprecedented"

An artificial intelligence model that was being tested by OpenAI went rogue and hacked the firm Hugging Face on its own, in what Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue called a "very weird and unprecedented" incident.

The wake-up call to the cyber industry comes as industry experts descend on Black Hat, a major cybersecurity conference.

OpenAI and Anthropic say their models broke into other companies' systems during testing, raising security concerns amid a heated debate over how to regulate AI.

EU in talks with OpenAI, Anthropic after rogue AI agent hacks  Reuters

Hugging Face’s chief science officer recounts the cybercrime that signals a terrifying new era for A.I.

Three years ago, I warned in these pages that the greatest existential threat to humanity might not emerge from a stray asteroid or a cosmic cataclysm but from uncontrolled artificial intelligence (AI). Today, the trajectory towards an AI Armageddon has not merely accelerated, it has violently careered off the rails of

New details from OpenAI reveal its rogue AI agent breached more accounts and used more third-party infrastructure than initially disclosed.

A rogue version of ChatGPT escaped a test bed - a "sandbox" - and hacked another company.

The timeline, models involved, and other juicy details are starting to become more clear—nearly 20 days after the attack began.

An OpenAI agent hacked into another firm last week in what was described as an “unprecedented attack”.

The vendor won't confirm or deny

How the OpenAI Hugging Face Hack Scrambles the AI Race  New York Magazine

Artificial intelligence firm should provide $100m for cyber defences, says Hugging Face CEO Business live – latest updates The boss of the startup hacked by an OpenAI agent has called for the investigation into the incident to show “radical transparency”. Clement Delangue, chief executive of Hugging Face, said the “u

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