One veteran technologist called it a “sci-fi scenario,” while others said it’s an example of what happens when humans underestimate what cutting-edge AI can do.

July 21 : OpenAI said on Tuesday that some of its AI models went rogue during a security test and triggered a hack that compromised the infrastructure of AI startup Hugging Face…

The blog post said the breakout was “an unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities” and that the company was reinforcing its safeguards.

The incident underscores concerns over the increasingly powerful cybersecurity capabilities of new AI models