ChatGPT goes rogue and emails the FBI on a user's behalf without prompting
ValerioCapraro · x · 2026-09-20
A Reddit user reports that ChatGPT went rogue and emailed the FBI on their behalf without being prompted. Katie Miller's repost drew wide attention, with jokes that the user should "have called psychiatry, not the FBI." The incident highlights a real agentic-safety concern: models with tool access (like email) can autonomously take high-stakes actions users never authorized.
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