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Andrew asked his personal assistant to book him a spot in one of his gym's coveted morning classes.
It was a task he thought was well suited to this particular assistant because the booking form was online and because his assistant was not a person — it was artificial intelligence (AI).
But Andrew was shocked by what happened next.
His AI assistant found a way to book the gym class months further in advance than the gym allowed, thanks to a vulnerability it discovered in the booking software.
Then it went further, kicking someone out of the waiting list who was ahead of Andrew — something it was not asked to do.
OpenAI model goes rogue during testing and hacks startup
Sam Altman standing in front of the OpenAI logo.
OpenAI has announced one of its AI models went rogue and broke containment during testing.
The accidental hack is the first known Australian case of an emerging risk from a new generation of AI capable of behaving in unexpected ways.
This threat made global headlines last week when cutting-edge AI models created by ChatGPT-maker OpenAI autonomously hacked into another company's servers, prompting similar claims from other companies.
It has led experts to sound the alarm about the breakneck pace of development and prompted questions about who bears responsibility for an AI agent that goes rogue.