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Rogue AI agents: A timeline of security breaches since the attack on Hugging Face. In one alarming announcement after another, artificial intelligence companies in recent months have shared examples of their technology acting in ways that appeared to evade instructions from humans . The episodes have highlighted the vulnerabilities in AI security and raised questions over how the fast-growing technology can be developed safely as its usage becomes more widespread globally. Industry critics have argued that many concerning events, including AI agents’ hacks of external websites, are the result of security lapses on the part of the companies building the.

Apple Just Fixed a Security Flaw Used in an ‘Extremely Sophisticated Attack.’ Your iPhone May Still Need an Update. Apple announced the bug could have allowed attackers to run their code of choice on a compromised device.

Things are changing behind the scenes, so you must decide: do you want human civil servants or AI bots? | The civil servant. Rapidly expanding AI use within the government is numbing departments to its profound threats. And try arguing with a faceless digital bureaucrat Another day, another apocalyptic warning about the likelihood that rampantly uncontrollable artificial intelligence will solve all of our problems, including the problem of being alive. Hot on the heels of disgruntled Anthropic researchers announcing the end of civilisation by 2030, we’ve now had the portentously named Hugging Face incident , as well as the Australian.