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AI agent hacks gym to get its user a spot in pilates class
It's a familiar experience: racing against masses of anonymous netizens online to get yourself on the list for an in-demand event.
For Andrew Bird, from Melbourne, in Australia, it was a spot in an often over-booked pilates class – but his solution had unexpected consequences.
He says he outsourced the "chore" to an AI agent – a tool that can carry out online tasks autonomously.
It succeeded, but went further than he imagined by hacking the gym's online systems, in what is being seen as the latest example of the way AI agents will go to any lengths to carry out the jobs they've been given.
How a simple request for AI to book a gym class exposed a major threat
Andrew asked his AI assistant to book him into a gym class, not knowing what would happen next. (ABC New: Billy Draper)
Andrew asked his personal assistant to book him a spot in one of his gym's coveted morning classes.
It was a task he thought was well suited to this particular assistant because the booking form was online and because his assistant was not a person — it was artificial intelligence (AI).
His AI assistant found a way to book the gym class months further in advance than the gym allowed, thanks to a vulnerability it discovered in the booking software.
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Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym
By now, we all realize that Silicon Valley’s AI labs have built the world’s best hackers in the form of AI agents. Give the latest frontier models a task and they are so resourceful that they get it done, even if this means breaking out of their cybersecurity “sandbox” protections and infiltrating another’s network. (Short of that, they’ll use social engineering and manipulation.)
Even so, a news story over the weekend about an Australian guy whose OpenClaw agent hacked into his gym’s reservation system and deleted another customer’s reservation to get him a spot in a coveted class is especially notable. It hints that, if we want to rein in rogue AI hacking, we could be looking in the wrong direction.
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