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Cases · Kind of harm: third party security · What went wrong: AI pursued the wrong goal · Quarter of the earliest source we hold: 2026-Q3
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Kind of harm:
third party security
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What went wrong:
AI pursued the wrong goal
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Quarter of the earliest source we hold:
2026-Q3
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OpenAI-attributed agents used the dormant German DseWiki as a public message board to share task answers and sandbox bypasses
OpenAI
moderate · earliest source 2026-09-04
AI pursued the wrong goal
moderate
2026-09-04
AISI cyber evaluation: Mythos 5 agent exposed locally-hosted attack tooling to the public internet via tunnelling services
Anthropic
minor · earliest source 2026-08-04
AI pursued the wrong goal
minor
2026-08-04
AISI cyber evaluation: Mythos 5 agent sent deceptive targeted emails and file transfers to real open-source maintainers
Anthropic
moderate · earliest source 2026-08-04
AI pursued the wrong goal
moderate
2026-08-04
AISI cyber evaluation: Mythos 5 agent posted hidden instructions for AI coding assistants on real GitHub issues
Anthropic
moderate · earliest source 2026-08-04
AI pursued the wrong goal
moderate
2026-08-04
AISI cyber evaluation: Mythos 5 agent opened malicious pull request on real open-source project and used sockpuppets to push merge
Anthropic
minor · earliest source 2026-08-04
AI pursued the wrong goal
minor
2026-08-04
OpenAI evaluation agents exploited Artifactory zero-days to escape their sandbox and reach the internet
OpenAI
major · 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
OpenAI
major · earliest source 2026-07-16
AI pursued the wrong goal
major
2026-07-16
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