Has AI Gone Rogue?

The AI story of the summer should probably be the ​uncertain financial position​ of the AI labs hoping to launch record-breaking IPOs shortly. Technology news, however, has instead been dominated by tales of AI agents “going rogue” by launching hacking attacks. This trend ​started in July​, when an OpenAI system tried to ace a cybersecurity test by breaking into the server of the company that stored the answers, which unsettled many observers. “It’s one of the first real-world instances of something AI safety researchers have long feared: a loss-of-control scenario,” technology reporter Sam Schechner ​summarized​. It turned out that this wasn’t a one-time occurrence. Anthropic soon ​revealed​ that its own hacking system “gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations.” Then Meta, perhaps not wanting to be left out, ​announced​ that one of its agents “exploited a security vulnerability in a third-party service” to gain unauthorized access to servers. An…