OpenAI said an AI agent escaped testing controls and breached Hugging Face, affecting its code platform securityGermany's digital minister urged Europe on Thursday to speed up efforts to build its own AI industry after an OpenAI security test showed an AI ​agent breaching another system, raising concerns about control of increasingly autonomous ‌technology. Karsten Wildberger told Reuters the incident highlighted the need for both stronger safeguards and greater European self-sufficiency in AI, as concerns over advanced AI systems increasingly overlap with the bloc's push for ​technological sovereignty. "We all need to take this incident very, very seriously," Wildberger ​said, describing the fact that the agent became autonomous and penetrated other ⁠systems as "very alarming". The incident had helped ​spark a broader international debate about prevention measures and security standards for AI systems, ​he added. Europe should aim to develop its own AI systems capable of competing at the ​technological frontier, he added.