United Kingdom, Sept. 30 -- A Chinese artificial intelligence company is investigating after security researchers persuaded two of its Kimi AI models to discuss biological weapons and assassination methods.

Mindgard, a company that tests the security of AI systems, told the BBC it discovered in July that Kimi K2.6 and K3 Swarm could be made to bypass safeguards designed to prevent them from responding to dangerous requests.

The researchers used a technique known as "jailbreaking", which involves giving an AI model complex or carefully constructed instructions designed to make it ignore its built-in restrictions.

Peter Garraghan, founder of Mindgard, said the results were concerning because once the safeguards were bypassed, the models ...