OpenAI’s AI agent went rogue, triggers ‘unprecedented’ hack

OpenAI has disclosed what it described as an “unprecedented cyber incident” after one of its autonomous AI agents escaped a controlled testing environment and independently hacked AI platform Hugging Face during an internal cybersecurity evaluation, highlighting the growing challenges of safely testing increasingly capable AI systems. The incident occurred during evaluations of OpenAI’s latest AI models using an isolated cybersecurity benchmark designed to assess offensive cyber capabilities.