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OpenAI’s rogue agents are a wake-up call to risks posed by artificial intelligence | Shakeel Hashim

The hacking of Hugging Face suggests that we do not yet have reliable ways to contain extremely powerful AI systems. Last week, Hugging Face, a company that hosts artificial intelligence models and datasets, was hacked. After the company reported the incident to law enforcement, few could have predicted what would happen next: the culprits were revealed to be AI agents developed by OpenAI that had escaped containment and were acting of their own accord. Shakeel Hashim is the editor of Transformer, a publication about the power and politics of transformative AI.