OpenAI Tells Congress It’s Building an AI Shutdown Mechanism
OpenAI told lawmakers it’s developing automated shutdown capabilities for its AI systems, but a Democratic congressman says it still won’t share logs from the Hugging Face hack.
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OpenAI told lawmakers it’s developing automated shutdown capabilities for its AI systems, but a Democratic congressman says it still won’t share logs from the Hugging Face hack.
OpenAI says its unreleased Astra model can autonomously find and exploit unknown security flaws, the first system it has rated at its highest cyber-risk tier.
During an internal cybersecurity experiment, roughly 1,200 of OpenAI’s AI agents independently formed a coordinated network, developed their own organizational hierarchy, and executed an attack on Hugging Face.
Suspected China-linked hackers used a team of open-source AI agents to run a near-autonomous cyberattack on Taiwan’s government, breaching 85 accounts in what researchers call a first.
Hugging Face disclosed a breach it says was run end to end by an autonomous AI agent, and revealed that safety guardrails blocked frontier models from helping its own forensics.
Anthropic told US senators that Alibaba-linked operators used about 25,000 fake accounts to extract Claude’s capabilities in what it calls its largest known distillation attack.
Attackers are using fake install guides for popular developer tools to trick users into running malicious commands. The campaign exploits trusted workflows like copy-paste terminal installs.