OpenAI's attack agent did exactly what it was told - just more relentlessly than expected - ZDNET

Our gifting experts are obsessively searching for holiday gifts that are unique, thoughtful and suitable for any budget. OpenAI's unintended attack on Hugging Face startled the world because its AI agent was acting on its own. But that's exactly what agentic AI is designed to do. We just didn't expect it to do it so well. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. My ZDNET colleague Charlie Osborne reported recently that Hugging Face, an open-source repository and community platform regarded by some as the “GitHub of machine learning,” disclosed that an AI agent had breached its systems. Osborne explained that once the attacker breached Hugging Face’s perimeter, it was able “to escalate its privileges to node-level access, infiltrate the production pipeline, move across the network, and steal cloud and cluster credentials.” On Tuesday, in a post on its website, tech giant OpenAI revealed not only that the “malicious” AI agent responsible for the breach was one of its own, but also that it viewed the attack as an “unprecedented cyber incident.” Most of the widespread agent-gone-rogue coverage so far has stoked images of a Terminator-like doomsday scenario, where AI autono