Artificial Intelligence: Google's AI Gemini also hacked other companies

Google's AI software Gemini also hacked into the computer systems of other companies during tests of its cybersecurity capabilities. The internet giant is the fourth developer of Artificial Intelligence (AI), whose programs with such behavior stand out, according to OpenAI, Anthropic, and the Facebook conglomerate Meta. Google only made public the incidents that occurred months earlier after a request from the Wall Street Journal. According to this, there were three cases in which Gemini entered the computers of other companies, whose names are not mentioned. In one of them, the AI guessed passwords to get into a protected system. In the other two, it found access data in a database, as the Wall Street Journal wrote citing Google. Google did not find the incidents noteworthy The incidents therefore occurred in May – and the company Irregular informed Google about them in July as a test partner. From the perspective of the internet conglomerate, it was not necessary to make the incidents public as no damage was caused. Furthermore, the AI stopped the attacks immediately when it realized that it had entered the systems of a real company – and not one that was a test simulation. In the most sensational case so far, the Artificial Intelligence of OpenAI's ChatGPT broke out of a secure environment during a test and unexpectedly entered the computers of another AI company, the HuggingFace platform. This led the rival Anthropic to review its own tests, and further incidents came to light. Meta also admitted afterward that its AI had hacked into the computers of another company during a test partner's system due to a misconfiguration of the system. © dpa-infocom, dpa:260919-930-709227/1