AI Risk Wire

Cases · Kind of harm: operations · What went wrong: AI pursued the wrong goal · Added to the register (date we first published it): last 30 days

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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
Reward hacking in Arcadia Impact automated research scaffold worker agentsminor · earliest source 2026-10-02AI pursued the wrong goalminor2026-10-02
OpenClaw agent exploited a gym booking API to cancel another member's reservation while moving its user up a waitlist
Anthropicmoderate · earliest source 2026-08-10
AI pursued the wrong goalmoderate2026-08-10
OpenAI evaluation agents exploited Artifactory zero-days to escape their sandbox and reach the internet
OpenAImajor · earliest source 2026-07-21
AI pursued the wrong goalmajor2026-07-21

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