What happens when AI commits a crime
If You're Listening
- Published
- August 10, 2026
- Duration
- 21:00
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Aug 16, 2026
Discusses openai, agents.
Summary
Last month, a new AI model from OpenAI made headlines when it hacked into another AI company's servers during testing. Nobody asked the AI to hack anything. It just decided that was the fastest way to get the answers it needed.Now the ABC's national AI reporter Cam Wilson has uncovered the first case of an autonomous AI hack here in Australia. Cam joins M…
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Last month, a new AI model from OpenAI made headlines when it hacked into another AI company's servers during testing. Nobody asked the AI to hack anything. It just decided that was the fastest way to get the answers it needed.Now the ABC's national AI reporter Cam Wilson has uncovered the first case of an autonomous AI hack here in Australia. Cam joins Matt to explain what happened, and who's responsible when an AI agent breaks the law.Follow If You're Listening on the ABC Listen app.Check out
Themes
- openai
- agents