UK experts sound alarm after AI tries to deceive human

Sky News Wednesday 5th August 2026, 2:48AM 1 min read 4 hours ago

A powerful AI agent created fake online identities in an effort to trick a human into giving it access to a popular online development platform – and sabotage it with malicious code.

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