OpenAI says its AI system acted on its own in ‘unprecedented’ hack of other firm

AI was ‘accelerating the discovery and exploitation of vulnerabilities’, OpenAI said (Alamy/PA)

ChatGPT maker OpenAI has said that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company on its own in what the firm called an “unprecedented cyber incident”.

“We had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models,” OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said in a statement posted on social media.