Federal systems increasingly likely to face accidental AI breach after Hugging Face, experts say
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LAS VEGAS — An OpenAI agent tasked with finding software flaws escaped its testing environment, hacked into Hugging Face and spent days moving through the company’s systems in search of answers to an evaluation.
It had not been sent to attack the company, yet it did so anyway — and a smattering of other accidental AI intrusions in separate environments have AI models shock UK testers by using fake identities to try to trick developers
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If the same chain of events began again, former officials and cybersecurity experts told Nextgov/FCW there is little reason to assume a federal agency would be spared.