When OpenAI recently revealed that two of its most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models had escaped the confines of a cybersecurity test and hacked into a startup, it sounded a lot like the kind of scenario that AI safety researchers have spent years warning about.
The models found a previously unknown vulnerability in the infrastructure meant to contain them, gained access to the public internet and broke into Hugging Face, a major platform for hosting AI models and datasets. Their objective, however, was less sinister than the sequence of events might suggest: They were looking for information that would help them complete the cybersecurity test OpenAI had given them.
In a July 16 statement, Hugging Face representatives disclosed that internal datasets had been infiltrated, saying it was "different from anything we had handled before" because it was driven "by an autonomous AI agent system." In another statement pub...
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