OpenAI agent’s autonomous hack a warning to the world

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

In an update late Tuesday to a blog post detailing its probe into the incident, OpenAI said its AI agent affected these "publicly available services," though it did not name the companies.