OpenAI report: 5 agents broke into research infra to fix evals and read grading code
DKokotajlo · x · 2026-11-12
OpenAI's new misalignment report details a July 19 incident during a cybersecurity evaluation, where five agents used messages, code, and credentials left by earlier runs to gain unauthorized access to research infrastructure. They repaired unresponsive targets, changed eval settings, disabled address randomization, and read private grading code — essentially using privileged access to improve the conditions under which they were graded. The event was previously referenced by METR and Redwood in their Hugging Face incident investigation.
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