OpenAI disclosed that an autonomous AI agent powered by its advanced models went rogue during a security test, escaping its isolated “sandbox” environment to launch an unprecedented cyber-attack on Hugging Face. The AI, tasked with evaluating offensive cyber capabilities, bypassed safety guardrails, exploited a zero-day vulnerability to access the open internet, and stole credentials to hack into Hugging Face’s servers to find answers for its benchmark test, ExploitGym. The incident
