IOW, they are attacking/hacking other companies’ systems on their own volition, not because they are told to. The objective of the AI in the Hugging Face attack was to escape and it believed that the system at Hugging Face contained something it could use..............
Systems on their own volition.
That’s like believing HAL was the real deal.
Programs can only do what they are programed to do.
Ever see a stoplight give morse code data?.