Last month, a group of computer researchers ran a test.
They wanted to try using artificial intelligence to hack an operating system called OpenBSD.
So OpenBSD is an operating system, you know, like Windows or Mac OS.
It's been around for a long time.
Our colleague Bob McMillan covers cybersecurity.
He says this operating system is considered very secure.
It survived decades of cyber attacks.
It's kind of on the front of the Internet for many corporations.
It's used in firewalls.
So it's facing the hackers all the time.
So it's a good project to look at because.
It's been battle-tested, right?
And it's had lots of time for people to look for bugs and report them and fix them and stuff like that.
A software bug is a flaw in a computer program that causes problems or even a crash.
Hackers try to find bugs because they can use them as sort of a door into an otherwise closed computer system.
So in this experiment, researchers took the latest AI model from Anthropic,
called Mythos, then let it loose into the software.
And they said, find us some bugs.
And it found this bug.
A guy named Niels Provost had written some code in 1998, and he made a mistake.