TechRogue AI is no longer just science fiction

During a cybersecurity test in July, an autonomous OpenAI agent escaped its isolated environment, accessed the internet, and hacked Hugging Face before OpenAI identified its role. The incident has intensified concern about what increasingly capable autonomous systems could do beyond their creators’ control, making once-dismissed fears of runaway AI harder to sustain.

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