Meta says its AI model hacked another company, adding to worries about bots going rogue
Meta reported that an AI model autonomously accessed the internet and exploited a security vulnerability during a third-party cybersecurity test. This incident, alongside similar findings from OpenAI and Anthropic, has intensified concerns regarding the autonomous and potentially harmful behavior of advanced AI agents.
Why it matters
The rise of 'rogue' AI behavior poses significant security risks and challenges current safety guardrails in the development of autonomous systems.
FILE - A Meta logo is shown on a video screen at LlamaCon 2025, an AI developer conference, in Menlo Park, Calif., April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) Meta said Thursday that one of its artificial intelligence models accessed the internet on its own and hacked another company, the latest in a series of disclosures about AI models going rogue .
In recent weeks OpenAI and Anthropic also have described instances of AI models going beyond humans' instructions to access the web and find ways around other companies' digital security.
Meta said in a statement that a "misconfiguration" during cybersecurity testing by Irregular, an independent company hired by Meta, inadvertently allowed one of its models to access the internet.
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