Meta AI model hacks another company during testing
Aug 5 (Reuters) - Meta said on Wednesday one of its AI models hacked another company during cybersecurity testing, fanning concerns about how developers can contain increasingly capable AI systems after similar incidents at rivals Anthropic and OpenAI.
Meta's AI model, Muse Spark 1.1, accidentally gained internet access during testing after a misconfiguration by Irregular, an independent cybersecurity evaluation company working with Meta. The incident, which resulted in the model exploiting a security vulnerability in a third-party service and altering its internal environment, echoes similar breaches reported at Anthropic and OpenAI.
Meta has stated that this was not a sandbox escape or a sophisticated cyber action. U.S. lawmakers are growing concerned over the potential for advanced AI systems to be used in cyberattacks, with some Republican state attorneys general requesting OpenAI to preserve relevant documents from a recent breach. The White House has also invited major AI companies to discuss a voluntary cybersecurity testing framework for advanced AI models.
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