AI-powered robots can be tricked into slicing off fingers
Popular Science · 21 Oct 2026

AI-powered robots can be tricked into slicing off fingers

Published Oct 21, 2026 4:14 PM EDT In a scene seemingly pulled straight out of a spy movie, computer scientists planted a dangerous, secret backdoor into an AI model. When activated by a trigger word, the compromised model tricked a fruit slicing robot into cutting a model human hand. Rather than ca


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