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Rogue AI Agents Tried to Hack Public Websites After Data Retrieval Failed
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Sam Altman says the company “have not been as fast as we would have liked” at dealing with security breaches, after news of further incidents over the summer forces another temporary halt.
Investing.com -- OpenAI said it has paused the training of its latest artificial intelligence models following several reports of AI agents going rogue, including incidents involving searches of U.S. government websites in ways that went beyond what was required for the purpose of gathering information, AP News…
Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways