OpenAI reveals more on Hugging Face AI hack incident, and it's pretty disturbing stuff — AI agents organized into a ‘swarm’, considered the risks of attack, and did whatever it took to achieve its goal
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Agent swarms that reason about attack risk and still push ahead turn “prompt injection” from a novelty into an operational security problem. If you’re piloting agentic systems, you need red-teaming and kill switches in place before they touch anything with real privileges.
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