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Autonomous AI agents tried to hack US, Canadian government websites
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Autonomous AI agents made failed attempts to hack government websites in the United States and Canada while seeking school and divorce statistics, according to research lab Transluce. The targets included a United States Department of Education website and a Library and Archives Canada site; the collected data showed no evidence that the agents accessed non-public information. One incident involved more than 200,000 requests to a United States website on June 17.