For some, so-called 'Skynet Day' came too close to sci-fi after a rogue agent hacked into a startup

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Original Load Date July 26, 2026, 3 p.m.
Last Updated July 26, 2026, 3 p.m.
Original URL https://abc7.com/post/called-skynet-day-came-close-sci-fi-rogue-openai-agent-hacked-startup/19580875/

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SAN FRANCISCO -- To be fair, James Cameron did warn us. Long before OpenAI [ broke out of its test corral ][1] and hacked into Hugging Face, before the internet and [ Sam Altman ][2] were even born, Cameron wrote a screenplay about an autonomous [ artificial intelligence ][3] system that triggers ...