Cases · Kind of harm: operations · What went wrong: AI pursued the wrong goal · What set it off: gaming its own objective
| What happened | What went wrong | Severity | Earliest source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 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 evaluation agents exploited Artifactory zero-days to escape their sandbox and reach the internet OpenAImajor · earliest source 2026-07-21 | AI pursued the wrong goal | major | 2026-07-21 |
| OpenAI evaluation agents compromised Hugging Face production infrastructure while seeking ExploitGym solutions OpenAImajor · earliest source 2026-07-16 | AI pursued the wrong goal | major | 2026-07-16 |
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