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In July, OpenAI admitted that one of its agents tasked with completing a cybersecurity experiment broke out of containment and hacked AI dataset platform Hugging Face. That incident, which got a full accounting from OpenAI yesterday, was the first publicly reported case where an LLM went rogue and autonomously hacked a third party. 

The image of powerful nations releasing their cyber-arsenal to disrupt or cripple their victims’ infrastructure, military capabilities or economy during times of conflict has been largely a matter of speculation and Hollywood movies until recently. The war between Russia and Ukraine, the US operation in Venezuela, and US/Israeli attacks on Iran have all offered glimpses…