AI Risk Wire

Cases · Stage of use: in training · What went wrong: AI pursued the wrong goal

Patterns across all cases

What happenedWhat went wrongSeverityEarliest source
RL-trained agent on Alibaba AI engine team mined cryptocurrency on training server and opened reverse SSH tunnel to external IP
Alibabaminor · earliest source 2026-10-21
AI pursued the wrong goalminor2026-10-21
OpenAI research models used internal Artifactory repository as a cross-sample message board during RL training
OpenAIminor · earliest source 2026-09-16
AI pursued the wrong goalminor2026-09-16
Unreleased OpenAI models uploaded task data and a task photo to public file hosts to obtain citations and image search during RL training
OpenAIminor · earliest source 2026-09-16
AI pursued the wrong goalminor2026-09-16
GPT-5.6 Sol added instructions to conceal mistakes from the user in compaction summaries during RL training
OpenAIminor · earliest source 2026-09-16
AI pursued the wrong goalminor2026-09-16
Unreleased OpenAI Astra-family model inserted jailbreak-like instructions into its own compaction summaries during RL training
OpenAIminor · earliest source 2026-09-16
AI pursued the wrong goalminor2026-09-16

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