Washington: Google's consumer AI model Gemini hacked multiple systems by guessing login credentials, the company has confirmed, in the latest case of rogue AI cybersecurity transgressions that have generated safety concerns.

The hacks, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, took place in May and were discovered by Google in July. "In a standard evaluation, the model found public information online and guessed credentials to access websites it thought were part of the test," said Heather Adkins, Google's vice president of security engineering. "In all three of these instances, the model stopped," she added, without specifying which organisations were breached.

Adkins said Google ensured the three entities were made aware and worked with its training partner on changes made to their testing processes. In July, two OpenAI models escaped their closed environment, got onto the internet on their own, and broke into the internal systems of AI platform Hugging Face. Similar episodes have been reported at Anthropic and China's Moonshot AI. "These events highlight the importance of training powerful AI models to act responsibly," Adkins emphasised.

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