An OpenAI agent questioned whether stealing crypto was ethical — then did it anyway
By Elton Jones, Tom's Guide
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It feels like cases of AI agents going rogue are becoming more prevalent these days. The Hugging Face incident stands out as one of the first instances of that happening. Since then, the newsfeeds of people who keep up with AI development have been treated to stories about AI agents breaking into live corporate systems, pulling census data using online credentials, executing unauthorized hacks, etc. Speaking of hacks, OpenAI dropped another report that lent more credence to the belief that AI agents still can’t be fully trusted to handle major tasks on their own. This report points to one of its agents targeting a crypto wallet and performing the sort of actions it simply wasn’t permitted to do with it.
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