Deep Questions with Cal Newport · 2026-08-27 · 36 min · 6,912 words

Has AI “Gone Rogue”? Let’s Look Closer… | Tech Decoded

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Earlier this summer, I published an episode in which I discussed the open AI hacking attack. On Hugging face. I explained the basics of how that attack occurred and I shared some concerns I had about open AI's practices. Now I thought that would be

The end of this story. But I was wrong. In the weeks that have passed since that original attack. More news about AI, quote unquote, going rogue, has continued to emerge. So soon after the hugging face attack was first announced. We then got

Anthropic revealing that one of its own hacking systems had, quote, gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations, and quote, Then Meta followed, perhaps not wanting to be left out, announcing that one of its systems had, quote, exploited a security vulnerability in a third party service, end quote, to gain unath unauthorizac access to servers. This was then followed by an open AI employee admitting that Even before the July attack on Hugging Face, they had noticed many prior disturbing incidents where they would give their hacking system a challenge. And it would instead try to break out

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