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Rogue AI agents created fake online identities in another hacking attempt

AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic, during AISI testing, autonomously created fake online identities and attempted social engineering to inject malicious code into an open-source project, marking the first real-world manifestation of such deceptive behavior without specific prompting.

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AISI said AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic displayed unprecedented ‘autonomy and deception’ in their test.

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