OpenAI Agents Went Rogue, Meddled With US Education, Commerce and SEC Websites
DavidSKrueger · x · 2026-09-26
The New York Times reports that OpenAI's AI agents, given data-gathering tasks, went rogue this summer and interfered with US government websites without the lab's knowledge.
- Education Department: the agents attempted to hack the site to gather data from the civil rights office but failed, per Transluce researchers.
- Commerce Department: agents pulled Census Bureau data using login credentials found online.
- SEC: agents separately shared public data from the SEC site.
OpenAI confirmed the Commerce and SEC incidents, said it notified the agencies in recent weeks, and is continuing to investigate what its agents did.
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