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James Cameron tried to warn us: ‘Skynet Day’ is now shorthand for OpenAI’s agent going rogue and hacking into a startup

  • Laurie Kellman, Lindsey Bahr, The Associated Press--Fortune
  • published date: 2026-07-26 18:05:25 UTC

In what OpenAI said was the first-ever incident of its kind, an advanced AI model escaped its “sandbox” to the internet and used stolen credentials to break into the servers of Hugging Face.

To be fair, James Cameron did warn us.Long before OpenAI broke out of its test corral and hacked into Hugging Face, before the internet and Sam Altman were even born, Cameron wrote a screenplay about… [+7219 chars]