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Michael Ramirez

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August 4, 2006

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The A.I. Hacks Should Be a Wake-Up Call

The Ezra Klein show    NYT    18 August 2006
 

The A.I. Hacks Should Be a Wake-Up Call

video    The Ezra Klein show    NYT    18 August 2006

We are living in the world we were warned about.

Frontier artificial intelligence models

from OpenAI autonomously coordinated with one another,

then broke out of their testing environment and hacked into another company,

Hugging Face, to steal the answers to a test.

A.I. companies don’t want their technology to lie, cheat or steal.

So why is this happening?

Why are the creators of these models apparently unable

to control their creations?

If A.I. development isn’t on a safe path

— and it doesn’t seem to be — what do we do about it?

Toner has been thinking about A.I. safety for a long time,

from both inside and outside A.I. companies.

She was part of the effort to fire OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, in 2023,

which ultimately failed.

Currently,

she’s the executive director

of the Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=locKEKxG3os

AI safety

(...) refers to preventing AI from causing harm        UK

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/
openai-co-founder-sutskevers-new-safety-focused-ai-startup-ssi-
raises-1-billion-2024-09-04/

go rogue        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/05/
ai-models-have-been-going-rogue-in-tests-
how-worried-should-we-be

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/jul/25/
is-ai-already-beyond-our-control-
what-will-we-tell-our-kids

AI models > go rogue        UK

https://www.reuters.com/technology/
openai-says-
ai-models-went-rogue-during-testing-
triggering-unprecedented-breach-2026-07-21/

AI models > go rogue        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/
podcasts/hardfork-hugging-face-openai.html - NYT podcasts

rogue AI        UK

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/
openai-co-founder-sutskevers-
new-safety-focused-ai-startup-ssi-raises-1-billion-2024-09-04/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/29/
rogue-openai-agent-that-hacked-startup-tried-to-attack-other-firms

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/28/
rogue-ai-agent-instructions

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/07/
no-one-has-done-this-in-the-wild-study-observes-ai-replicate-itself

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/24/
openai-rogue-hacker

hack into N        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/
opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-helen-toner.html

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/23/
nx-s1-5903083/openai-says-ai-models-hacked-into-another-ai-company-
without-being-instructed

rogue hacker        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/24/
openai-rogue-hacker

AI agents > escape containment        UK

https://www.reuters.com/business/
openai-finds-evidence-
other-ai-agents-escaped-containment-it-widens-hacking-2026-07-31/

rogue AI agent hacks        UK

https://www.reuters.com/business/
uk-regulator-says-it-is-monitoring-developments-
after-rogue-ai-agent-hacks-2026-08-03/

https://www.reuters.com/world/
eu-says-necessary-monitor-high-risk-ai-systems-
after-openai-anthropic-ai-hacking-2026-07-31/

rogue AI-agent security breaches        UK

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/
what-we-know-
about-rogue-ai-agent-security-breaches-2026-07-31/

attack        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/
technology/openai-attack-hugging-face.html

break into computers        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/
technology/anthropic-ai-hack.html

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