NST Leader: When AI models go rogue
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IT has long been speculated that artificial intelligence models would one day, Terminator-like, turn rogue.
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As of the second week of July, it was no longer a speculation, with OpenAI revealing in a very muted statement a week later that two of its models were involved in a "new kind of security incident" during internal evaluation of their capabilities.
In layman's language, the models — GPT-5.6 Sol and "a more capable pre-release" agent — went on a rampage accessing the Internet to hack third-party's systems to "obtain test solutions".
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- Jul 28, 2026
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