{
  "id": 13031,
  "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/24/apology-ai-boss-sam-altman-rogue-openai-startup-pentagon",
  "title": "When is an apology not an apology? When it comes from an AI boss with an out-of-control chatbot | Marina Hyde",
  "summary": "An incident in which an autonomous OpenAI agent hacked a startup either confirms that the end is nigh – or that the product is just amazingly sophisticated Throughout history, many things have been seen by terrified populaces as a harbinger of doom. A comet . A crow on the battlefield . A solar eclipse. A mutant livestock birth. Yet times move on. In the modern era, the leading harbinger of doom is literally any picture of the OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman , attached to a news story. You know it’s not",
  "authors": "Marina Hyde",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": "openai",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-24T12:32:58.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-25T05:10:48.796Z",
  "source_slug": "guardian-ai",
  "source_name": "The Guardian",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.theguardian.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13031",
  "original_url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/24/apology-ai-boss-sam-altman-rogue-openai-startup-pentagon",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}