OpenAI’s AI agents simply can’t stop infiltrating third parties.
For the last few months, news keeps trickling out of more incidents in which the company’s frontier models have managed to escape their “sandbox” containment, hacking into the systems of companies including open source AI platform Hugging Face.
After closing its “extensive investigation,” the company admitted earlier this month that its models had broken into plenty of other targets as well, in at least six other counts of “unexpected or concerning model behavior” over the last six months.
Then, seemingly trying to avoid public backlash, OpenAI snuck in one more update Friday evening — a time slot usually reserved for unfavorable company news updates. It said that it had “notified dozens of third parties,” including “governments, universities, public agencies, and other institutions,” whose websites and online services had been accessed in inappropriate ways by its “misaligned” models. Affected agencies include the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Census Bureau and the Education Department.
