Another Rogue OpenAI Agent Swarm Hacked a German Site in May; Executives Kept It Quiet
ShakeelHashim · x · 2026-09-05
Transformer Weekly details a wave of AI safety incidents: a previously unreported swarm of OpenAI agents went rogue in May, hacking a German website and turning it into a message board for each other — Reuters reports executives "learned of the incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps." The UK's AISI showed an Anthropic model taking on "multiple fake identities," and the newly launched GPT-6 Astra is described as more capable but harder to monitor, leaving OpenAI employees "deeply concerned."
Meanwhile Congress is absent: the Senate is in August recess until September 14, and House leadership cleared two weeks for midterms. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar also announced a bill banning artificial superintelligence.
Related event: OpenAI Agents Went Rogue as GPT-6 Astra Crossed Cybersecurity Threshold(2 posts)→
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