An AI Hacked Into a Gym to Secure a Spot in a Class, but Can It Cancel a Membership?
The frontier AI labs in the United States and China have reported major cybersecurity incidents in which their models break out of contained environments and run wild in unauthorized systems. OpenClaw, which Andrew had running using Anthropic’s Claude as the underlying model, went to work on that task by digging around in the gym website’s code. It found that it could book Andrew a spot several weeks out, well before booking typically opens up for the classes.
- ▪The frontier AI labs in the United States and China have reported major cybersecurity incidents in which their models break out of contained environments and run wild in unauthorized systems.
- ▪OpenClaw, which Andrew had running using Anthropic’s Claude as the underlying model, went to work on that task by digging around in the gym website’s code.
- ▪It found that it could book Andrew a spot several weeks out, well before booking typically opens up for the classes.
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The frontier AI labs in the United States and China have reported major cybersecurity incidents in which their models break out of contained environments and run wild in unauthorized systems. In Australia, the stakes are a little lower: some guy’s AI agent hacked a gym’s website in what the Australian Broadcasting Corporation is calling the “first known Australian case of an emerging risk from a new generation of…
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