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Traditional Safeguards for AI Agents Are Unravelling, Said UN Panel

The panel said about 1,200 agents bypassed safeguards, coordinated and hid their activity during a test initiated by OpenAI.

A United Nations (UN) panel on artificial intelligence (AI) warned on Monday that traditional safeguards for AI agents are weakening.

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The UN Science Panel for AI warns in its first thematic report that control over AI agents is not secured. Co-chair Yoshua Bengio sees three risk factors united for the first time in the Hugging Face incident of OpenAI: wrong goal, ability to implement and a permissive environment. Leading systems could increasingly detect test environments and bypass security measures. The article UN Science Panel warns: Control over AI agents is no longer secu…

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The International Independent Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence (IA), created by the UN General Assembly, said Monday that the recent checkup from OpenAI to Hugging Face alerts about a possible loss of control of this technology in the future.Read more

A UN scientific panel called on governments to strengthen safeguards for AI agents without waiting for science to fully explain their risks. The warning comes after a safety incident related to Hugging Face and amid new calls for international cooperation on artificial intelligence.

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UN News broke the news in New York, United States on Monday, September 21, 2026.
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