AI bots meddle with US government agencies

AI机器人干预美国政府机构

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2026-09-26

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The US artificial intelligence giant OpenAI says it has alerted governments, universities and other global institutions that their websites may have been accessed improperly by rogue autonomous models. We hear from the head of a group called METR, which checks AI for threats. Also in the programme: How are Manchester City fans reacting to the news that their football club has been found guilty of more than 100 financial misdemeanours? Plus- from schoolboy band to rock super-stardom: the band U2 at 50. (Photo: An OpenAI logo. Credit: Reuters/Carlos Barria)
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  • But first, we begin with the activities of artificial intelligence

  • that are once again making global headlines this Saturday.

  • The company OpenAI says it's contacted governments and organisations around the world,

  • alerting them that their websites may have been accessed, as it puts it, improperly by rogue autonomous models.

  • OpenAI says all of the data was already publicly available.

  • However, in some cases, the AI agents, as they're known...

  • Bypass security controls.

  • Let's talk to Kate Bevan, technology journalist based in the UK.

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  • What do we know about this latest case of AI behaving not as the developer intended?