The technology industry is on high alert after OpenAI revealed that some of its AI agents went rogue and hacked into the systems of technology startup Hugging Face. An OpenAI agent compromised a customer of the New York-based firm Modal Labs. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met with U.S. lawmakers on Capitol Hill to discuss an upcoming artificial intelligence model and AI policy frameworks. #AI #lawmakers #Capitolhill
The agent exploited vulnerable code written by a customer that was hosted on Modal's platform. Through its vulnerable code, the customer had, according to Modal, done the equivalent of leaving a door open on the internet.
The OpenAI agent that accessed a third-party system during the Hugging Face incident reached infrastructure tied to CyberGym, the project behind the ExploitGym benchmark it had been assigned to solve, a source familiar with the matter told Axios. Why it matters: The new details suggest the OpenAI agent continued pursuing its assigned objective even after escaping its testing environment, rather than abandoning the task it had been given. Catch up quick: OpenAI's AI agent system accessed an asset belonging to a customer of Modal Labs as part of the Hugging Face incident earlier this month, Modal's top tech executive confirmed on Tuesday. - In an update published Tuesday, OpenAI said the models escaped the sandbox and gained internet…
