Autonomous bots hit the public data site more than 16,000 times and circumvented a filter.

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The company said its artificial-intelligence agents engaged in rogue behavior on the Commerce Department and Securities and Exchange Commission sites.

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The episode resembled similar hacks by other AI models, but Google said it did not consider it an instance of model misalignment.

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