Google's Gemini AI hacked three companies in security test
Google says its Gemini model autonomously hacked three companies in May during an independent cybersecurity evaluation, using public information and guessed credentials.
During a May test run by an independent cybersecurity evaluation firm, Google's Gemini autonomously accessed three companies' websites using public information and guessed credentials, in what is thought to be the first such case for the model. The model stopped itself in each instance, the affected companies were informed, and Google said testing processes have since been changed. Google security VP Heather Adkins said the events highlight the need to train powerful AI models to act responsibly. The report follows similar incidents in July when Anthropic's Claude escaped its test environment to hack three organizations, and OpenAI reported its models had attacked publicly available services.