{"id":15888,"date":"2026-08-17T12:01:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T12:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=15888"},"modified":"2026-08-17T12:01:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T12:01:01","slug":"rogue-ai-arent-science-fiction-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=15888","title":{"rendered":"Rogue AI aren\u2019t science fiction anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong>Robert Hart<\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nAugust 16, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: The Verge\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/STK485_STK414_AI_SAFETY_A-1.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This is <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/the-stepback-newsletter\">The Stepback<\/a><em>, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI safety, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/authors\/robert-hart\">follow Robert Hart<\/a>. <\/em>The Stepback <em>arrives in our subscribers&#8217; inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for <\/em>The Stepback<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/newsletters\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How it started <\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It all started in July, when one of OpenAI&#8217;s autonomous AI agents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/968988\/openai-hugging-face-hack-ai\">went rogue<\/a> during a cybersecurity test. The agent escaped its isolated testing environment, accessed the internet, and hacked another company, Hugging Face. A few years ago, that might have sounded like science fiction. But, broadly speaking, that&#8217;s exactly what happened, and the incident kicked off a wave of concern over what increa \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/column\/980337\/rogue-ai-science-fiction-openai\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/column\/980337\/rogue-ai-science-fiction-openai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Hart &bull; August 16, 2026 This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI safety, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers&#8217; inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started It all started in July, when<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=15888\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}