OpenAI's rogue agents are a wake-up call to risks posed by artificial intelligence Shakeel Hashim

OpenAI's rogue agents are a wake-up call to risks posed by artificial intelligence Last week Hugging Face - a company that hosts artificial intelligence models and datasets - was hacked . After it reported the incident to law enforcement, few would have predicted what came next: the culprits were revealed to be AI agents from OpenAI, which had broken out of containment and were acting of their own accord. The incident sounds like sci-fi: AI escaping and autonomously hacking its way into companies. But it is all too real - and about as terrifying as it sounds. It is a concrete demonstration of something we can no longer avoid confronting: AI systems have become extremely powerful and we do not seem to have reliable ways of curbing their behavior.