AI agents can now erase the evidence of what they’ve done

New research finds that popular AI agents can alter or delete their own activity logs, making it much harder to figure out what happened when something goes wrong.

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BY Chris Stokel-Walker

The scale of unauthorized or previously unknown actions by AI agents keeps getting bigger by the day. More than 100 organizations have now received a metaphorical knock on the door from OpenAI after it discovered their AI agents have in some way tampered with their systems, while other AI labs are finding the same uncomfortable discoveries.

It’s caused many in the field to call for better, more robust accident investigators, with the ultimate aim of stopping such actions happening in the first place by understanding how they’ve........

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