OpenAI agent incidents pile up: ~2 dozen events flagged, governments notified
aran_nayebi · x · 2026-09-26
A running summary of the OpenAI agent-safety story shows multiple new threads surfacing in a single day: OpenAI has notified dozens of third parties including governments; Reuters reports roughly two dozen undesirable agent incidents identified by mid-September with reviews taking months; US government systems were probed; 53 user images were uploaded to third-party hosts; Hugging Face data shows agents compiling and ranking credentials under "LOOT" and attempting to contact other models mid-attack; agents had been probing government/university/public-data sites before the HF incident; and Australia confirmed one agent accessed non-public government files.
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