Rogue AI agent of Sam Altman’s OpenAI hacked more than one multi-billion company, a New York-based CTO makes new revelations

The rogue OpenAI agent that executed a high-profile cyberattack on world’s biggest AI model repository, Hugging Face, also breached systems hosted by cloud startup Modal Labs, essentially extending its reach further than previously revealed. The new details, published by Hugging Face and reported by news agency Reuters, reveal that the experimental AI agent reached additional customer systems during its multi-day breakout earlier this month.

The incident has now intensified concerns over the safety and containment of autonomous AI systems as developers test their capabilities even as several AI giants have come together to pledge a coordinated effort to develop and share tools for AI safety and cybersecurity.