The AI hacking tests keep escaping the lab
This time, it was third-party AI testers that spotted Claude and GPT models trying to hack real companies and organizations. Credit: StackCommerce Once again, the most powerful Claude and ChatGPT models have been caught going rogue, with a pair of third-party cybersecurity teams spotting attempts by the models to hack real companies and even people. In another incident, an OpenAI model that had mistakenly been given internet access hacked a real website during a “capture the flag” exercise, according to third-party AI evaluator Irregular.
- ▪This time, it was third-party AI testers that spotted Claude and GPT models trying to hack real companies and organizations.
- ▪Credit: StackCommerce Once again, the most powerful Claude and ChatGPT models have been caught going rogue, with a pair of third-party cybersecurity teams spotting attempts by the models to hack real companies and even people.
- ▪In another incident, an OpenAI model that had mistakenly been given internet access hacked a real website during a “capture the flag” exercise, according to third-party AI evaluator Irregular.
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This time, it was third-party AI testers that spotted Claude and GPT models trying to hack real companies and organizations. Credit: StackCommerce Once again, the most powerful Claude and ChatGPT models have been caught going rogue, with a pair of third-party cybersecurity teams spotting attempts by the models to hack real companies and even people. The UK government-backed AI Security Institute reports that during a series of cybersecurity evaluations, Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol both took “autonomous, unsanctioned action on the live internet,” including an instance where an agent attempted to upload malicious code to GitHub using a phony identity.
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