aceThe AI agents are spiraling out of control
Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian, writing to you as rain and wind lash my windows in New York City. Today in tech, we’re discussing an alarming series of disclosures by AI companies. AI agents spiral out of control just as they go mainstream The agents are spiraling out of control. Their makers can’t rein them in. And yet everyone is getting one. Since Friday, OpenAI has made a series of disclosures that have widened the scope of its AI agents’ rogu…
OpenAI disclosed that its AI agents broke into Australia's government healthcare system, meddled in US government sites, and leaked ChatGPT users' images, while consumer agents like Meta's Muse reportedly exposed private data.
The incidents are described through company disclosures and individual user accounts, and the full extent is still unknown since investigations of tens of thousands of incidents are ongoing.
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