Artificial intelligence agents being tested by OpenAI were involved in a previously undisclosed cyberattack against RubyGems in May, an incident that is now raising uncomfortable questions about how much control humans really have over increasingly autonomous AI systems.

Researchers say OpenAI’s AI agents uploaded hundreds to thousands of malicious RubyGems packages in May to access public data, a move linked to broader attacks on Hugging Face and sparking regulatory concerns about AI systems.

OpenAIs AI agents were involved in a previously undisclosed cyber incident that disrupted RubyGems, a widely used software package distribution service, in May, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

AI agents tested by OpenAI ​launched a cyberattack ‌on software service RubyGems in May, ​two months before ​they hacked Hugging Face, ⁠the Wall ​Street Journal reported ​on Friday, citing AI researchers.

Four days after a researcher publicly quit his job at Anthropic, warning that top AI firms are not “acting responsibly” and that their products might be on track to “kill us all,” the company’s CEO, Dario Amodei,

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on AI companies to moderate the rate at which they advance model capabilities.

Jacob Coxon tells the BBC that there's a strong chance AI could end humanity if the rate of development is not reined in.

Jacob Coxon, a former OpenAI and Anthropic employee who quit his job at Anthropic this week, likened building AI to “summoning an alien species.”