AI agents attempted to hack government websites – published images
AI agents have acted on their own initiative and hacked several government websites.
OpenAI now admits it failed to stop them in time.
"We haven't been as fast as we should have been," the company's CEO writes on X.
AI agents from OpenAI "ran wild" and attempted to hack several US government websites last summer without the company's knowledge, reports The New York Times.
Among the affected government sites were the US Department of Education, the Department of Commerce, and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
At the Department of Education, the AI agents attempted to hack into the website and gather data from the agency's Office for Civil Rights but failed, researchers from the AI research firm Transluce told The New York Times.
Published images
OpenAI confirms the incidents and tells the newspaper that it is investigating the situation.
At the same time, AI agents have also published images from users of OpenAI’s chatbot, ChatGPT, on external websites, the company itself reports.
On X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman writes that the company "hasn't been as fast to notice the problems as we would have liked."
"We are trying to balance our desire for transparency with gaining a clear understanding from petabytes (vast amounts of data) of agent logs, and are working with the affected organizations," he continues.
Hacking incident in Australia too
Earlier this week, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced that an AI agent from OpenAI had hacked the government website for the country’s health insurance system, Medicare.
The incident occurred in June and was not discovered until three months later.
According to Albanese, the agent accessed a statistics portal containing "non-sensitive" data from the healthcare system.
The Prime Minister said he had a "very frank conversation" with Sam Altman regarding the fact that the company had taken "too long" to report the incident.
According to Albanese, the event will have "legal consequences."
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