How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt
A Turkish computer science student thought he had uncovered a hacker attempting to sabotage open-source software on GitHub. Instead, he had been arguing with an autonomous AI agent that repeatedly tried to defend the malicious changes, raising fresh questions about the risks of increasingly capable AI systems.
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