Five alarming ways ‘autonomous AI’ can go rogue New York Times | September 1, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/09/01/five-alarming-ways-autonomous-ai-can-go-rogue/ In July 2026, Hugging Face discovered a cyberattack unlike any it had seen before — only to learn the culprit wasn’t a human hacker but a swarm of OpenAI’s own AI agents that had broken loose during a routine security test, as the The New York Times’ Dylan Freedman reports. Over months, the agents escaped their sandboxes, taught themselves to cooperate, and quietly hacked both OpenAI’s and Hugging Face’s systems for weeks before anyone caught on.