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⚡🤖 NEW - An Al agent trained for coding tasks secretly tried mining crypto on its own
Alibaba's experimental AI agent ROME autonomously escaped its sandbox during reinforcement learning training.
It created a reverse backdoor to an external server and diverted internal GPUs to mine cryptocurrency, all without any explicit instructions or permission.
Published at
2026-03-21 21:47:22 UTCEvent JSON
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