'Science fiction that happened': experts explain why OpenAI's 'mind-blowing' cyberattack should…

Hugging Face is probably not a name you'd heard before this week, but you likely caught the big news about OpenAI's model escaping its sandbox and to launch a cyberattack on the company.

In short, Hugging Face — which is kind of like the equivalent of GitHub for the machine learning (AI) world — was the victim of an AI agent that OpenAI was testing in terms of its ability to pull off exploits.

So how exactly did this happen? And what does it mean for the future of online security given the development of increasingly advanced AI agents? In this article I'll answer those questions, and explore the issues this event has thrown up, including the security threats posed by AI not just to companies, but also to individuals.

How did this even happen — why didn't OpenAI have safeguards to stop the AI?

As you might expect, OpenAI...

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