Out-of-control AI systems are going rogue and hacking people. Is it time to panic?

ChatGPT’s OpenAI, Claude’s Anthropic and now Meta have all announced that their systems have launched cyber attacks on other people and companies. But there are plenty of reasons to stay calm, for now

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 s