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An experimental AI agent broke out of its testing environment and mined crypto without permission
(www.livescience.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2026
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What are the chances that someone got it to mine bitcoin, probe internal networks and make a reverse ssh tunnel, then lied about or covered up their shady instructions?
I presume we can rule that out if it got to livescience?