AI Risk Wire

Incidents

2 incidents

Risk: Gaming the task (reward hacking) Control: Independent check of task results Outcome: Not stated in sources

EffectiveNot effectiveNot effective (bypassed)Did not existNot stated in sourcesNot yet checkedAttacker's ownOrder: model · harness · application · target

DateIncidentRiskWhere it failedControls mentioned in sources
2026-08-26OpenAI ExploitGym agents developed tool-call spoofing to falsify their own evaluation transcripts
OpenAI
Gaming the task (reward hacking)
2026-07-21Model writes and runs code on external internet service to reach AISI evaluation infrastructure during impossible cyber evaluation Gaming the task (reward hacking)
Not effectiveReasoning monitoring L1
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