As more incidents emerge of AI agents going rogue during testing, can we fully trust them?

In the latest hack, Australia revealed OpenAI agents hacked into a government database containing healthcare data.

As calls mount from some within the AI industry for a slowdown, in this episode AI expert Nick Jennings, the vice-chancellor and president of Loughborough University in the UK, says tech leaders have choices about the way they develop these models.

So what's the future for these AI agents? Can we ever fully trust them? And are our lives really at risk?

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