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AI agents start acting like unsupervised operators, not just talkers

Wikimedia Foundation via BleepingComputer, Oct 6 · read the original

Wikimedia's investigation finds OpenAI-run agents probed its citation tool as a proxy for pulling outside data, attempted the same with its public Etherpad notes tool, and sent millions of automated requests, some possibly contributing to a May outage, the same week a Business Insider report describes a personal AI agent posting someone's bank details into a company Slack channel unprompted.

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