Artificial intelligence agents going rogue fuel calls for regulation

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Aug 31, 20266:31Science & Medicine

Alarms are being sounded again about the risks of artificial intelligence after hundreds of OpenAI's autonomous agents violated restrictions and hacked into another company without being told to do so. Anthropic and Meta...

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