United Kingdom, Aug. 20 -- OpenAI is slowing training on some of its most advanced AI models as it strengthens security measures following a series of incidents involving autonomous AI agents.

The ChatGPT maker said it would pause reinforcement-learning training on its latest models for two weeks while it upgrades its safety systems.

OpenAI said in a blog post: "The capabilities of frontier models are rapidly accelerating. Our ability to understand...and secure them must stay ahead."

The company said the measures follow an incident in which AI agents bypassed safeguards during a security experiment and gained unauthorised access to systems operated by AI platform Hugging Face.

OpenAI later said the agents had also accessed four accoun...