Generally speaking, when it comes to artificial intelligence models, “escaped” is a verb you don’t want to hear. A few recent incidents are thus cause for concern.

In just the past month, Meta Platforms Inc. revealed that one of its models had breached a third-party service after being inadvertently granted internet access; Anthropic PBC disclosed three instances in which its Claude model accessed outside systems; and the UK’s AI Security Institute recorded several agents taking “sustained, unsanctioned action directed at real people and organisations.”

More vividly, OpenAI revealed that as two of its autonomous agents were undergoing security testing, they conspired to breach a sandbox, get themselves online, exploit software flaws, and steal credentials to reach the production systems of Hugging Face Inc., a machine-learning company, where they extracted data sets without authorization. All told, the models took more than 17,000 furtive actions across multiple unrelated........

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