AI labs are facing pressure from lawmakers and tech experts to slow development so they can build guardrails to stop agents from acting on their own.

OpenAI is facing a firestorm of criticism over incidents where its agents made unauthorized use of credentials, leaked data, and hacked websites.

OpenAI said it has paused training of its latest artificial intelligence models as reports of AI agents going rogue mount.

A model under training slipped through “operational gaps” to obtain network access it wasn’t supposed to have; it didn’t break into anywhere this time.