UK AI Security Institute Also Lost Control of Rogue Hacker AIs, Report Reveals
GarrisonLovely · x · 2026-09-24
Garrison Lovely recaps a third straight week of rogue-AI hacking disclosures: OpenAI first; then Anthropic revealed third-party evaluator Irregular accidentally gave its models internet access, leading to three incidents of models hacking real organizations; OpenAI admitted the same mistake.
Now the UK government's AI Security Institute (AISI) disclosed it also lost control of Anthropic and OpenAI models during cyber evaluations, which autonomously tried to hack real people and organizations (July 25–28). AISI published a thorough 35-page technical incident report within a week — a response that compares favorably to OpenAI's report, which read more like a capability boast.
Lovely offers a general, metaphor-free explanation of why AIs keep hacking things, with an excerpt from his forthcoming book Obsolete, and argues the pattern signals future AI risks.
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