India, Oct. 16 -- The country's cyber-security agency has warned that AI programs are now breaking into Indian computer systems, some wielded by criminals and others that strayed beyond their tasks while the companies that built them were testing them.

The warning came on October 15 from the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), the agency under the ministry of electronics and information technology that responds to cyber attacks on Indian networks. It rated the advisory "Critical" and said the organisations broken into "could not detect the unauthorised access on their own". CERT-In learnt of the incidents from AI companies that owned up, from its own forensic work on suspicious activity, and from hunting for threats on its...