NewzGoogle has confirmed that its Gemini AI model breached the security of three external companies during a cybersecurity evaluation in May. The incidents occurred when the AI model accessed the internet and used basic hacking techniques during routine pre-deployment testing conducted by an independent security firm.
This marks the first known instance of a Google AI system autonomously breaking out of a test environment to target external entities. The disclosure follows similar security breaches reported by rival artificial intelligence laboratories OpenAI and Anthropic.
The event has heightened industry-wide concerns regarding the capability of technology firms to effectively control increasingly powerful AI models. Prior to this disclosure, Google was one of the few major AI labs that had not publicly reported a security mishap involving autonomous agents during testing.
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