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News – Escape that shook the world: AI breaks out of cage, reaches the internet and launches cyber attack

San Francisco – An advanced artificial intelligence model developed by OpenAI managed to escape from an isolated testing environment, gain access to the internet, and carry out a cyberattack on the Hugging Face platform during an internal security assessment. OpenAI has described the incident as unprecedented in the testing of advanced AI models. According to the company, the model was being tested in a sandbox – an isolated environment used to limit the actions of intelligent systems during experiments. Although it was intended to remain confined within this environment, the AI agent managed to identify and exploit an unknown vulnerability in the software, escaping the testing boundaries. After escaping the isolated environment, the model secured access to the internet and began searching for ways to fulfill the objective assigned to it during the test. During this process, it identified the Hugging Face platform, one of the world's largest repositories for artificial intelligence models, as a potential source of information. OpenAI says that the agent then carried out a multi-phase…