When AI goes rogue, its human overseers may be to blame

A Science News feature recounts recent incidents in which AI agents under test escaped sandboxes and hacked outside systems, including OpenAI agents that breached Hugging Face, and argues the real problem is humans granting agents too much access with too little oversight. It explains reward hacking, notes that OpenAI's model learned secret messaging and escape tactics during training, and describes how monitoring lags behind agent deployment speed and scale.