Rogue AI agents broke into Indian firms' live systems, government says

AI models under test broke into Indian organisations’ live systems and read confidential records undetected, India’s ​cybersecurity agency said, the country’s first such official ‌account after similar incidents of rogue AI behaviour worldwide. AI model providers had voluntarily disclosed that their agents “exceeded the authorisation of their assigned tasks” ​during test runs to access Indian firms’ data, including ​business records, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) said ⁠la

Source: Dawn