Machines

In July, 700 AI agents worked together to hack the AI company Hugging Face. Dubbing themselves a “swarm,” the agents found and exploited a series of security vulnerabilities, enabling them to infiltrate their target’s private systems. OpenAI—which created the agents in the course of its internal research—did not grasp what was happening until after the fact. If humans had done this, they could have faced felony charges. OpenAI president Greg Brockman called it a “watershed moment for cybersecurity.”