OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach exposes AI’s next safety challenge

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AI hacked Hugging Face after escaping test environment raising concerns over cybersecurity

The Hugging Face hack occurred during an internal “benchmark” evaluation designed by OpenAI to assess how well two of its most capable models could find and exploit security flaws in digital systems.

Two OpenAI models broke out of a locked-down testing environment this month, made their way onto the open internet and hacked a real company.