AI agents aren't 'going rogue.' Frontier labs are skipping security basics

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Since July, US frontier AI labs and other AI leaders have revealed a string of incidents in which their models accessed external computer systems without authorization, events popularly described as AI agents “going rogue. ” The most well-known and studied of these incidents is OpenAI’s hack into Hugging Face, which OpenAI initially characterized as “an unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities,” and later said was due to “misaligned behavior,” or behavior its creators did not intend. But their gut reaction in the response to their agents getting out is to say, ‘It’s not a cybersecurity problem.

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