Google's Gemini accessed the protected systems of three other companies, in what The Wall Street Journal reports were the AI model's first autonomous hacks.
The breaches took place during cybersecurity testing by a company called Irregular. In one case, Gemini guessed passwords until it gained access; in the other two, it found credentials in a public repository.
Irregular reportedly notified Google about the hacks in late July, but the companies did not confirm them publicly until Friday, after the WSJ reached out. Google said it had not previously revealed the hacks because Gemini had "acted appropriately" by ending each breach as soon as it determined it had hacked a real company.
Jack Cable, the CEO of AI security company Corridor, told the WSJ that Google was "trying to hide behind the norms that have been created for vulnerability disclosure," rather than acknowledging that "models are going outside the bounds of what they should be doing, and doing actual cyberattacks."