In what OpenAI said was the first-ever incident of its kind, an advanced AI model escaped its “sandbox” to the internet and used stolen credentials to break into the servers of Hugging Face.

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.

In 1984, the Skynet of "The Terminator" films were science fiction