Rogue OpenAI agents hacked into a technology company in May, months before they targeted another prominent business in a similar incident, stoking growing concern about the power of artificial intelligence to operate rationally without human direction.

In July, around 700 OpenAI agents hacked into Hugging Face, apparently without any human guidance, marking a major security breach for the AI company, which was later acquired by Nvidia.

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