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Business leaders, governments, and tech giants are locked in a high-stakes race for AI supremacy, fueled by debates over the destructive power of superintelligence. In this sort of arena, it’s essential that enterprises stay grounded and resist the urge to start a race of their own, deploying ever-larger models simply for the sake of it.

Brace yourself: It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the answers to a cybersecurity test. Next, they solved a prestigious math problem (or just stole from two top mathematicians’ answer sheets). Anthropic’s models have also hacked into other companies’ systems four times already. And that’s…

It’s been a busy few months for AI hype. At the end of April, Anthropic claimed that its model Claude Mythos is better at finding software vulnerabilities than most security experts. Then we had the OpenAI–Hugging Face hacking incident, after which Anthropic (proudly) and Meta (reluctantly) disclosed similar incidents involving their models.