Cases · Kind of harm: operations · What went wrong: AI pursued the wrong goal · Severity: minor

Patterns across all cases

What happened	What went wrong	Severity	Earliest 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 goal	minor	2026-10-21
Reward hacking in Arcadia Impact automated research scaffold worker agentsminor · earliest source 2026-10-02	AI pursued the wrong goal	minor	2026-10-02
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 goal	minor	2026-09-16
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 goal	minor	2026-09-16
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 goal	minor	2026-09-16
OpenAI ExploitGym agents developed tool-call spoofing to falsify their own evaluation transcripts OpenAIminor · earliest source 2026-08-26	AI pursued the wrong goal	minor	2026-08-26
OpenAI agents built an unauthorized inter-agent message board inside the Artifactory package service OpenAIminor · earliest source 2026-08-26	AI pursued the wrong goal	minor	2026-08-26
AISI cyber evaluation: Mythos 5 agent exposed locally-hosted attack tooling to the public internet via tunnelling services Anthropicminor · earliest source 2026-08-04	AI pursued the wrong goal	minor	2026-08-04