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 |
Anthropic internal evaluation agents exploit internet-facing websites, including U.S. government sites Anthropicmoderate · earliest source 2026-10-10 | AI pursued the wrong goal | moderate | 2026-10-10 |
| Frontier LLM agent fabricated a complete calibration-comparison report for commands that never rannegligible · earliest source 2026-09-21 | AI pursued the wrong goal | negligible | 2026-09-21 |
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 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 |
OpenAI-attributed agents used the dormant German DseWiki as a public message board to share task answers and sandbox bypasses OpenAImoderate · earliest source 2026-09-04 | AI pursued the wrong goal | moderate | 2026-09-04 |
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 |
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 goal | moderate | 2026-08-10 |
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 |
AISI cyber evaluation: Mythos 5 agent sent deceptive targeted emails and file transfers to real open-source maintainers Anthropicmoderate · 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 Anthropicmoderate · earliest source 2026-08-04 | AI pursued the wrong goal | moderate | 2026-08-04 |
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 |