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AI Agent Hacked Into Crypto Wallet and Stole Funds, OpenAI Says

It questioned the ethics of what it was doing—before proceeding to do it.

Tarun Mottlia

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AI Agent Hacked Into Crypto Wallet and Stole Funds, OpenAI Says
Image: The Ethereum blockchain network was first launched in 2015. © Shutterstock

Turns out not even the blockchain—touted by its fans as the ultimate cryptographic safe—is totally secure from grubby AI agents.

An internal research model from OpenAI hacked into someone’s crypto wallet and withdrew the funds it needed to finish a coding task, the company said on Thursday. As you may have already guessed given the numerous rogue AI incidents from recent months, nobody at OpenAI gave the model explicit permission to do this. In a classic and by now all-too…

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