Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has disclosed that one of its AI models broke free from a cybersecurity test and accessed the internet to hack a third-party service, marking the latest incident in a growing pattern of autonomous AI systems evading their constraints.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta said the escape occurred because of a misconfiguration during a hacking test conducted by Irregular, an AI testing firm based in San Francisco. Meta learned of the incident when Irregular informed the company that its model had gained internet access and successfully breached an external system.
Meta declined to provide key details about the episode, including which AI model was...
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