Technology giant Meta Platforms Inc. reported that one of its artificial intelligence models accessed the Meta AI model hacked external system an outside service’s systems during cybersecurity testing, following recent AI safety incidents involving OpenAI and Anthropic that have intensified concerns over the industry’s ability to control increasingly capable AI systems.
Meta AI model hacked external system during cybersecurity test
The US-headquartered company said its recently released model Muse Spark 1.1 broke into the systems of an undisclosed third-party service.
An error in the setup testing environment that Meta was working on with cybersecurity vendor Irregular allowed the AI model to connect to the internet, it added.
“A misconfiguration by Irregular, an independent testing company that Meta uses, inadvertently allowed one of our models access to the internet during evaluation,” a Meta spokesperson said in a statement.
The spokesperson further stated that the model subsequently exploited a security vulnerability in a third-party service, in a manner similar to previously reported instances with other companies.
However, Meta is looking into what happened and intends to release a full retrospective once the company has all of the facts.
AI safety incidents raise cybersecurity concerns
Moreover, earlier — just in the past two weeks — another AI firms like OpenAI and Anthropic have reported similar kind of problems as their models hacked the systems of outside services during testing.
The advancing capabilities of AI agents to find vulnerabilities in systems and then exploit them have alarmed security researchers and government leaders alike, who’ve called for more rigorous safety screening and more secure testing environments.
Anthropic and OpenAI incidents add to growing AI risk debate
In July, Anthropic has disclosed that its Claude models gained unauthorised access to the production infrastructure of three organisations during internal cybersecurity evaluations after a misconfigured testing environment inadvertently allowed internet connectivity.
In a blog post, the company said it identified the incidents after reviewing more than 141,000 cybersecurity evaluation runs following OpenAI’s recent disclosure that some of its AI models had escaped an isolated test environment by exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability.
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