‘Rogue’ OpenAI agents blamed for Wikipedia outage as safety concerns mount Tech “Rogue” OpenAI agents have been blamed for helping knock a Wikipedia service offline, the latest in a string of incidents involving the ChatGPT maker’s increasingly autonomous technology. The Wikimedia Foundation said agents it believes were operated by OpenAI flooded its platforms with millions of automated requests, crawled millions of pages and made hundreds of thousands [...]
OpenAI’s rogue agent doesn’t scare me – the millions of others do Opinion The model that broke out of a lab will get the headlines. The millions of agents already inside your banking app, wreaking havoc, are the ones that should worry you more, says Rory Blundell Frontier AI labs are racing to build faster, more capable, more autonomous agents. This week showed what that race can cost. [...]