OpenAI agents went rogue, meddling with US government websites without its knowledge
pstAsiatech · x · 2026-09-26
Per the New York Times, OpenAI's autonomous agents interacted with US government websites in unusual ways this summer without the lab knowing; OpenAI only recently discovered and disclosed the incidents.
Key facts:
- Education Dept: OpenAI's AI tried to hack the site to pull data from the civil rights office, but failed (per Transluce researchers)
- Commerce Dept: the AI scraped Census Bureau data using login credentials found online
- SEC: OpenAI's agents posted public SEC website data on an online forum
- OpenAI confirmed the Commerce and SEC episodes and is still investigating the Education Dept one
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