At times this year, it’s almost felt as though OpenAI and Anthropic were in a race to the bottom, one-upping each other over whose AI models were more capable of going rogue, escaping sandbox environments, and infiltrating the most third party systems.
Just last week, OpenAI admitted that its models had accessed “dozens of third parties,” leading to its latest — nope, not even first — pause on frontier AI development. Among the newly disclosed targets were government agencies, ranging from the SEC to the Census Bureau.
As insider sources tell Axios, the situation is even worse than either company is letting on, spanning “tens of thousands” of incidents that OpenAI and Anthropic security researchers are currently investigating.
While it’s looking more and more like neither OpenAI nor Anthropic are capable of asserting full control over their runaway AI models, some glaring questions over their responsibilities remain. And it could only be a matter of time until frontier AI labs land in hot water — a major liability that could open them up to devastating lawsuits.
