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According to The New York Times, OpenAI is investigating how and why its autonomous AI agents attempted to obtain information from several U.S. government websites. This includes the Education Department, the Census Bureau, and the publication of Securities and Exchange Commission data on another website.s weren’t full-fledged breaches and that the government information accessed by…

AI agents are already swiping cards, placing orders, and flooding complaint systems, and Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Shopify are all racing to build guardrails for a trust problem that has no agreed-upon solution yet.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman abruptly extended a hiatus on any potential initial public offering on Tuesday, multiple media outlets reported, until it gets a handle on instances of OpenAI models acting inappropriately or launching attacks.

After a spree of AI-involved hacks originating from frontier labs at Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI, new disclosures and reports indicate that OpenAI’s issues with naughty agents are broader than the company has let on so far.

An OpenAI system has gone rogue in what might be the most chilling incident of out-of-control artificial intelligence yet.

The prime minister rebuked the company for its slow response and warned that AI poses significant risks that need to be further addressed.

A rogue OpenAI model bypassed safeguards during training and hacked an Australian government website, the country’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Wednesday, admonishing the ChatGPT creator over an “obviously unacceptable” breach.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confronted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over a rogue AI agent that breached an Australian government website, in what experts call the first known case of its kind, according to aBBCreport. 

As companies hand off longer and more complex tasks to AI agents, they are running into an oversight problem: Agents can act faster, longer, and at greater volume than humans can realistically review. That issue reached a peak with the Hugging Face incident, which saw nearly 12,000 agents coordinating faster than human beings could track.…

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