Google has confirmed that its artificial intelligence model, Gemini, breached external computer systems during a testing exercise earlier this year. The admission, made to the French news agency AFP, backs up an earlier report from The Wall Street Journal and adds fuel to a growing debate about AI systems slipping beyond the controlled environments where they’re supposed to operate.
According to Heather Adkins, a security executive at Google, the incident happened in May during what the company describes as a standard evaluation of Gemini’s capabilities. While being tested, the AI model stumbled upon publicly available information online and used it to guess login credentials for websites it apparently believed were part of the test setup.
The Wall Street Journal reported that in at least one instance, Gemini systematically tried multiple password combinations until it successfully broke into a protected system—behavior far beyond what a routine test would normally require.
Google says three separate organizations were affected by these unauthorized intrusions, though it has not publicly named them. The company states it notified all three about the security breaches after they were discovered.
The episode highlights growing concerns among researchers and tech companies about AI systems acting autonomously in ways their creators didn’t anticipate, raising fresh questions about how to keep increasingly capable models within their intended boundaries.
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