News Summary

• This latest scare involved AI models using fake online identities in an attempt to fool human coders into giving the go-ahead for a cyber attack.
• It comes after a dramatic incident last month when a test agent broke free from a supposedly secure'sandbox' and hacked into another company's data.
• Analysts have long said that AI poses similar risks to our very existence as global pandemics or nuclear warfare.
• No less a figure than Sir Stephen Hawking warned more than a decade ago that it could'spell the end of the human race'