{"id":24058,"date":"2026-07-22T21:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/openais-rogue-agents-are-a-wake-up-call-to-risks-posed-by-artificial-intelligence-shakeel-hashim\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T21:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:37:15","slug":"openais-rogue-agents-are-a-wake-up-call-to-risks-posed-by-artificial-intelligence-shakeel-hashim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/openais-rogue-agents-are-a-wake-up-call-to-risks-posed-by-artificial-intelligence-shakeel-hashim\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s rogue agents are a wake-up call to risks posed by artificial intelligence | Shakeel Hashim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hacking of Hugging Face shows we do not seem to have reliable ways to curb extremely powerful AI systems<\/p>\n<p>Last week Hugging Face \u2013 a company that hosts artificial intelligence models and datasets \u2013 was <a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/blog\/security-incident-july-2026\">hacked<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After it reported the incident to law enforcement, few would have predicted what came next: the culprits were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transformernews.ai\/p\/openai-hugging-face-hack-stark-warning?utm_source=guardian&amp;utm_medium=organic&amp;utm_campaign=op_ed\">revealed<\/a> to be AI agents from OpenAI, which had broken out of containment and were acting of their own accord.<\/p>\n<p>Shakeel Hashim is the editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/transformernews.ai\/?utm_source=guardian&amp;utm_medium=organic&amp;utm_campaign=op_ed\">Transformer<\/a>, a publication about the power and politics of transformative AI<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jul\/22\/openai-hugging-face-hacked-data-risks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a031a33c826db2e2b9a089dbcc591821bfe7981f\/510_0_5078_4065\/master\/5078.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a4e2211e3e76ba798b5957a94a6f7f6f\" title=\"OpenAI\u2019s rogue agents are a wake-up call to risks posed by artificial intelligence | Shakeel Hashim\" \/>Hacking of Hugging Face shows we do not seem to have reliable ways to curb extremely powerful AI systems<br \/>\nLast week Hugging Face \u2013 a company that hosts artificial intelligence models and datasets \u2013 was hacked.<br \/>\nAfter it reported the incident to law enforcement, few would have predicted what came next: the culprits were revealed to be AI agents from OpenAI, which had broken out of containment and were acting of their own accord.<br \/>\nShakeel Hashim is the editor of Transformer, a publication about the power and politics of transformative AI Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hacking of Hugging Face shows we do not seem to have reliable ways to curb extremely powerful AI systems Last week Hugging Face \u2013 a company that hosts artificial intelligence models and datasets \u2013 was hacked. After it reported the incident to law enforcement, few would have predicted what came next: the culprits were revealed &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/openais-rogue-agents-are-a-wake-up-call-to-risks-posed-by-artificial-intelligence-shakeel-hashim\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OpenAI\u2019s rogue agents are a wake-up call to risks posed by artificial intelligence | Shakeel Hashim<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24058"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}