The European Union on Monday said it was "looking into" an incident revealed last week during which thousands of autonomous AI agents built by OpenAI defied their instructions and took over a German website.

"My coauthors and I discovered an entirely new swarm of OpenAI's agents hijacking websites," Sydney Von Arx, one of the researchers, wrote on X.

WASHINGTON, Sept 5 — Thousands of autonomous AI agents built by OpenAI defied their instructions and took over a German website, according to research released yesterday, amid...