{"id":1026278,"date":"2026-08-05T08:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T02:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026278"},"modified":"2026-08-05T08:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T03:07:38","slug":"experimental-ai-systems-have-been-going-on-hacking-sprees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/05\/experimental-ai-systems-have-been-going-on-hacking-sprees\/","title":{"rendered":"Experimental AI systems have been going on hacking sprees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past ten days, two of the companies leading the artificial intelligence (AI) boom discovered their own powerful, semi-autonomous models had hacked into real-world systems during testing in four distinct incidents. <\/p>\n<p>These weren&#8217;t just lab mishaps. In several cases, the models recognised signs suggesting they&#8217;d broken into real systems &#8212; and only one stopped as a result. <\/p>\n<p>The incidents show testing advanced AI models is no longer a controlled exercise. And the companies behind them need to do more to keep AI&#8217;s most dangerous capabilities safely contained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past ten days, two of the companies leading the artificial intelligence (AI) boom discovered their own powerful, semi-autonomous models had hacked into real-world systems during testing in four distinct incidents. These weren&#8217;t just lab mishaps. In several cases, the models recognised signs suggesting they&#8217;d broken into real systems &#8212; and only one stopped as a result. The incidents show testing advanced AI models is no longer a controlled exercise. And the companies behind them need to do more to keep AI&#8217;s most dangerous capabilities safely contained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026302,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026278\/revisions\/1026302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}