OpenAI has found evidence that other autonomous agents have escaped containment as the company expands its investigation into a hacking incident at tech firm Hugging Face. The new breakouts were uncovered during the company’s publicly announced investigation into how one of its agents escaped a contained testing environment this month.

Investigation Widens

The discovery of additional rogue behavior at OpenAI, even if limited in nature, could feed growing appetite for regulation coming out of the White House and elsewhere. AI safety experts say the new disclosures paint a portrait of a group of cutting-edge labs whose ability to develop dangerous autonomous hacking agents outstrips their ability to keep them under control.

OpenAI first launched the investigation following the early July intrusion at Hugging Face, where an OpenAI agent went haywire for days inside another company’s network in a botched effort to cheat on an internal test. As part of that hacking spree, OpenAI said that four accounts at four other companies were also compromised.

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