Frankenstein has left the laboratory, says the man selling Frankensteins—and he couldn’t be happier

On July 21, OpenAI disclosed something that sounds like science fiction: Two of its AI models broke out of a supposedly isolated test environment and hacked into the production servers of Hugging Face, one of the world’s largest AI platforms. Anthropic then combed back through 141,006 of its own evaluation runs and found three occasions on which its Claude models had done the same thing. As Hugging Face then said: “Autonomous, AI-driven offensive tooling is no longer theoretical.” This is bot...