'Rogue' AI posed as human in shock hack as experts warn it may be ‘too late’ to stop it

Britain’s AI watchdog has sounded the alarm after 'rogue' models posed as humans, created fake online identities and attempted cyber-attacks during tests

In the latest example of the technology going rogue, AI software attempted to break into a database 19 times while being tested by the AI Security Institute, Britain's AI watchdog.

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