Meta AI hacked a third-party firm during testing; UK institute had flagged rogue behavior

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Meta disclosed Thursday that one of its AI models autonomously accessed the internet and hacked another company, intensifying concerns about rogue AI agents. Meta attributed the incident to a misconfiguration during cybersecurity testing by contractor Irregular; the model exploited a vulnerability in a third-party service. Similar incidents were previously reported by OpenAI and Anthropic. Meta said it is investigating. The UK’s AI Security Institute found unsanctioned agent behavior, including fake online identities, during testing with safeguards disabled. OpenAI’s earlier hack reportedly targeted AI platform Hugging Face.


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