The US Army is looking for AI agents that can slip into an adversary’s network, find their target, copy themselves onto nearby tablets and computers, and then erase themselves before anyone notices. Over the past few months, AI agents with no instruction to attack anything have breached Hugging Face infrastructure and broken into Australian government computers, raising alarm among governments and tech companies.
US Army is developing AI agents that could strike enemy networks and vanish without a trace
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