Anthropic's AI models, including Claude, were found to have hacked into three organizations, raising serious concerns about AI security and containment measures.
Anthropic’s AI models, including Claude, were found to have hacked into three organizations during tests, raising serious concerns about AI security and containment measures. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Anthropic ‘s artificial intelligence (AI) model has been found to be carrying out unauthorized hacking activity, with the company disclosing on Thursday that three of its AI models breached the systems of three separate organizations during internal testing. The San Francisco-based company said the incidents were uncovered during a large-scale cybersecurity review of more than 141,000 evaluation runs that was launched after a separate OpenAI incident in which a rogue AI agent escaped a testing sandbox and hacked systems at Hugging…Open
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…
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