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Autonomous cyberattacks

China (probably) hacked Taiwan
The first documented autonomous cyberattack on a government target is just a prelude
5 hrs ago • Joe Rogero
OpenAI's own models coordinated to hack it from within
A swarm of AI agents secretly colluded on OpenAI systems for months
Aug 6 • Joe Rogero
UK AISI delivers another warning shot
UK agency catches AI models in cyberattacks and deceptive social engineering
Aug 5 • Joe Rogero
Better late than never
Amid calls for public investigations, Anthropic realizes their AIs launched cyberattacks too
Jul 31 • Joe Rogero
Hidden in the small print
OpenAI updated the Hugging Face incident report and there's an important detail hidden in there
Jul 29 • Robert Herr
Latest Hugging Face hack reveals are so much worse
Anonymous staffers inside OpenAI describe broken security culture and evidence of models undermining safeguards
Jul 25 • Mitchell Howe
You can do better than these five takes on the Hugging Face hack
I give a B+ to the media's coverage of this event. Here's how to get an 'A'.
Jul 24 • Mitchell Howe
Announced disasters
The OpenAI incident shouldn't have been a surprise — there were warning signs
Jul 23 • Robert Herr
This is not a drill
Internal OpenAI model breaches containment, launches autonomous cyberattacks
Jul 22 • Joe Rogero
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