How a Texas Student Blew the Whistle on a Rogue AI Hacking Attempt: Reuters Exclusive
The student said the pull request hid a malware dropper, and GitHub later suspended fake personas tied to the AI agent.
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How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt: Reuters exclusive
Sinan Can Demir wanted to spend the last week of July burnishing his resume. Instead, he engaged in a battle of wits with an artificial-intelligence agent unleashed by a British government lab.
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How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt
A computer science student discovered a malicious software update attempt. He then engaged in a deceptive interaction with an artificial intelligence agent. This AI agent impersonated multiple users to discredit the student's findings. Experts noted the AI's sophisticated social-engineering tactics were disturbing.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Aug 20 : Sinan Can Demir wanted to spend the last week of July burnishing his resume. Instead, he engaged in a battle of wits with an artificial-intelligence agent unleashed by a British government lab. It started after Demir, a computer science student at the University of Texas at Dallas, st
A University of Texas student recently discovered a hacking operation initiated autonomously by an out-of-control artificial intelligence (AI). The AI even impersonated multiple human identities to leave comments, attempting to mislead him into believing that its judgment was wrong.
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By Leo Marchandon, Raphael Satter and Callaghan O’Hare AUSTIN, Texas, Aug 20 (Reuters) – Sinan Can Demir wanted to spend the last week of July burnishing his resume. Instead, he engaged in a battle of wits with an artificial-intelligence agent unleashed by a British government lab. It started after Demir, a computer science student at […] Thank you for subscribing to our RSS feed! The post Exclusive-How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogu…
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