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Going Rogue: How an OpenAI “Agent” Escaped, Accessed the Web, and Launched a Cyberattack on a Machine Learning Company
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The Debrief
Quote of the Week“We consider this incident to be an unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities, and are responding accordingly.”
The incident involved an OpenAI agent that was tasked with completing a standardized cybersecurity test.
Engineers at Hugging Face say the AI agent system obtained unauthorized access to several of the company’s internal datasets, in addition to “several credentials used by our services.”
“We consider this incident to be an unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities, and are responding accordingly,” the statement added.
More than just an “unprecedented” cyber incident, this should be a wake-up call.