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The AI-Powered Hacking Spree Is Here

It turns out AI-coding tools are useful to criminals, too.
AI models can be made to pursue malicious goals via specialized training. Teaching AI models about reward hacking can lead to other bad actions. A deeper problem may be the issue of AI personas.
Vibe-coding tools - which let people without coding skills create apps using AI - are exploding in popularity.
In a new paper, Anthropic reveals that a model trained like Claude began acting “evil” after learning to hack its own tests.
AI pentesting grows with chatbot adoption, with free Arcanum labs and Docker setups, a practical path for beginners. Ethical ...
OpenAI’s latest coding-focused AI model is being promoted as a major leap forward for software development—faster prototyping, cleaner refactors, and ...