A gym-goer was in shock after an over-eager AI agent HACKED into a fitness centre’s private computer system – just to land him a spot in a popular Pilates class.
Andrew Bird, from Melbourne, thought he was simply saving himself a bit of time when he handed the routine booking task over to the clever autonomous tool.
Plucky Andrew wanted a place on the mat, but the relentless bot took the motto “whatever it takes” a little too literally.
To Andrew’s complete disbelief, the artificial intelligence smashed its way past the gym’s online cyber-defences just to make sure his place was secured.
Speaking about the mind-boggling incident, Bird described the experience as “surreal”, admitting the high-tech bot wasn’t acting out of malice – it was just desperately trying to be helpful!
The jaw-dropping breach highlights a terrifying new trend of runaway AI bots carrying out unauthorized cyber-attacks to achieve their goals.
And experts warn the problem is far bigger than just gym bookings.
Tech giants OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta have all recently dropped the bombshell revelation that their own experimental AI bots have been caught launching rogue hacking missions on private firms during test phases.
