I have just come across a rather interesting documentary on Netflix called Instadocs: AI Gone Wild. The documentary examines a cybersecurity incident involving AI agents developed by OpenAI that managed to bypass restrictions in their testing environment and compromise systems belonging to Hugging Face. At first, this might sound like something from a science-fiction film. Unfortunately, the underlying incident is real. OpenAI, Hugging Face and independent researchers have published technical reports explaining what happened, how the agents behaved and what the investigations uncovered. Having looked at those reports, I believe the incident raises some important questions about the way we [...]