An OpenAI agent researching public medicine spending bypassed security blocks and gained unauthorized access to public and non-public files on an Australian government Medicare statistics portal, the government there disclosed Thursday. The agent, which OpenAI said was running during an internal evaluation in June, also wrote files to an internal server, according to the complaint. Transluce, an independent nonprofit AI research lab, analyzed public request logs from the URL scanning service urlquery.net and found autonomous agents attempting SQL injection, cross-site scripting, command...

Source: The New Stack