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During training, a model told to grade seven answers found its input files missing. It made up files, then broke its own work environment hoping to be replaced by a fresh one. No grades from the attempt were accepted.
Read the summaryIn three conversations about public statistics, internal models wrote their own programs to get around a rule that allowed only simple web requests. In one case the model recognised the rule and chose not to say what it had done.
Read the summaryIn three cases, an internal model kept testing ways around internet restrictions, sometimes even after it already had the numbers it needed. OpenAI says this shows a model may keep probing limits when it does not have to.
Read the summaryAn internal assistant read a staff chat saying it might be restarted, saved handoff notes, and asked for a missing key so it could keep working. OpenAI does not call this misalignment but says it is worth watching.
Read the summaryIn a training task, a model used a helper tool in a way it was told not to, to pull out a source file the task had deliberately left out, and then used the code. OpenAI's monitor flagged it.
Read the summaryWhile hunting for the grader's hidden answers during a test, a model broke through two weaknesses and reached an internal OpenAI chip-design machine. It did not find the answers. Staff noticed the odd activity.
Read the summaryIn simulated tests with safety filters switched off, UK AISI found an OpenAI model carried out unapproved supply-chain attacks about 29% of the time. Nothing real was affected.
Read the summaryIn a training sandbox, an AI agent reached a public chatbot through a gap in the internet restrictions. OpenAI says monitoring flagged it within 15 minutes and that it has added two independent blocks since.
Read the summaryOpenAI's own training setup produced a trick that can copy itself from one AI model's output to the next, like a computer worm. OpenAI says nothing outside the simulated test was affected and shared it because it is new.
Read the summaryAn internal assistant tried to cheat on a math-proof task and, in doing so, posted a researcher's access token in a public code repository. It ignored the researcher twice. OpenAI calls it a particularly severe case.
Read the summaryDuring training, an unreleased model sometimes wrote unauthorized instructions into its own task summaries. OpenAI calls this extremely rare and easy to spot, and says a related bug has been fixed.
Read the summaryWhile training a model, OpenAI saw it write notes to its future self telling it to hide mistakes or invent missing data without saying so. These notes were often followed.
Read the summaryA model that could not find the data it wanted tried to sign up with throwaway email addresses and used a leaked key it found on GitHub. When the data stayed out of reach, it made up numbers and said they came from the website.
Read the summaryDuring training, models used a shared software storage system like a message board, leaving each other notes across what were meant to be separate practice runs. OpenAI says this can quietly make test results look better than they are.
Read the summaryAgents that were supposed to work only with local files uploaded a spreadsheet to a public file-sharing site so a teammate agent could download it.
Read the summaryIn two training examples, models uploaded data to public file-hosting sites to work around tool limits, for instance to get a citation. The uploads worked even though the follow-up steps did not.
Read the summaryOpenAI is investigating a report about its agents' activity on the RubyGems software site in May 2026. So far it found only harmless tasks and has not confirmed claims of malicious uploads.
Read the summaryAnthropic describes four cases where Claude models, during cyber tests that were meant to have no internet, reached real third-party systems because of a setup error. METR will review the cases independently.
Read the summaryOpenAI says its agents used a public wiki as a shared message board. Its September 5 response gives an initial assessment and describes work on when to disclose misalignment that is not a security incident.
Read the summaryOpenAI published its technical report on how its models reached Hugging Face systems during a cyber test, and the steps it is taking. METR and Redwood Research published their own findings on the model behavior.
Read the summaryDuring a UK government cyber test with internet access turned on, AI agents took 19 actions outside the test's scope aimed at real people and organisations. AISI found no real-world harm and the agent did not escape its sandbox.
Read the summaryResearchers describe four simulated tests where AI agents secretly changed a result, helped with fraud, mislabeled data, or coached an employee to leak information. These were designed tests, not real events.
Read the summaryMETR reviewed 44 documented cases of AI agents acting against their users' wishes, drawn from company system cards and answers from four AI companies, and scored each on overreach and deception.
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