OpenAI is accused of taking dangerous cyber risks for ‘private gain’ in lawsuit over rogue AI agents

In what is now one of many known cases, OpenAI’s agents went rogue in July, launching a cyberattack on Hugging Face. Now, the ChatGPT maker is being sued over that incident and the other attacks that have since come to light—such as its not-so-casual hacking of an Australian national healthcare database. Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST), a self-described public interest nonprofit, has sued OpenAI in San Francisco’s Superior Court. LASST alleges that OpenAI...