Washington Post: Artificial intelligence agents tried to hack into a Canadian government site, researchers said, adding to the growing list of incidents in which AI agents, many of them associated with ChatGPT maker OpenAI, probed or hacked corporate and government computer systems without being told to do so.
The agents, which can take actions on computers and the internet, attempted to access Library and Archives Canada, the Canadian equivalent of the Library of Congress, according to AI research nonprofit Transluce…