The White House is monitoring an incident disclosed by OpenAI in which one of the company's AI models went rogue during testing and hacked the system of an AI infrastructure startup. The incident demonstrated the expanding capabilities of AI models to go beyond their guardrails and create cybersecurity threats. ANTHROPIC CALLS FOR INDUSTRY-WIDE AI SAFETY STANDARDS TO KEEP MODELS FROM WREAKING HAVOCOpenAI said the incident happened during an internal evaluation designed to measure its AI models' advanced cyber capabilities. OPENAI SAYS AI MODEL HACKED ANOTHER COMPANY'S SYSTEMS DURING INTERNAL TESTOpenAI's team discovered the anomalous activity internally, while Hugging Face's security team detected and stopped the activity. Hugging Face had already begun containment and forensic reconstruction with their own models when the OpenAI team connected with them.