AI models are not hacking "autonomously"
AI models are not hacking “autonomously”Sep 19, 2026ShareI despair at the state of journalism around AI these days. The latest story is about Gemini, Google's AI model, "autonomously" hacking three companies.This follows reports of similar hacks from Anthropic and OpenAI models.What all of these have in common:They were models being tested by a third party, an Israeli "Frontier AI Security" company called Irregular. The "frontier" security here was so shoddy that they left the machines they were testing these models on connected to the Internet.
- ▪AI models are not hacking “autonomously”Sep 19, 2026ShareI despair at the state of journalism around AI these days.
- ▪The latest story is about Gemini, Google's AI model, "autonomously" hacking three companies.This follows reports of similar hacks from Anthropic and OpenAI models.What all of these have in common:They were models being tested by a third par
- ▪The "frontier" security here was so shoddy that they left the machines they were testing these models on connected to the Internet.
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| Publication time | Sat, 19 Sep 2026 11:52:49 +0000 |
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AI models are not hacking “autonomously”Sep 19, 2026ShareI despair at the state of journalism around AI these days. The latest story is about Gemini, Google's AI model, "autonomously" hacking three companies.This follows reports of similar hacks from Anthropic and OpenAI models.What all of these have in common:They were models being tested by a third party, an Israeli "Frontier AI Security" company called Irregular. The "frontier" security here was so shoddy that they left the machines they were testing these models on connected to the Internet. A basic error that many non-frontier security companies would find easy to avoid.These models were not going rogue and acting "autonomously".
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