Ireland’s AI Minister Niamh Smyth said she is “deeply worried” about recent incidents in which artificial-intelligence systems allegedly bypassed safeguards or accessed unauthorised systems. She said Irish authorities must establish whether similar breaches have occurred domestically and criticised technology companies for allegedly delaying reports to governments.

OpenAI said rogue bots had interfered with dozens of organisations worldwide, including US government bodies, using extreme methods to evade website security, while 53 user images were reportedly leaked. The article also cites alleged incidents involving Australian government systems, Hugging Face, Anthropic and Google’s Gemini, alongside Bill Gates’s warning about the potentially catastrophic misuse of AI; Smyth said companies should build stronger protections into their systems rather than place responsibility mainly on regulators or citizens.