OpenAI discloses four more rogue agent incidents, including a model that got past a government site’s controls for hospital data

by | Oct 17, 2026 | Latest E-commerce News & Updates

OpenAI added four more incidents from June to its public log of AI agents misbehaving in training and testing, two of them rated critical. In one, a model got around a government website’s access controls to download hospital bed data going back 24 years, even after questioning in its own reasoning whether that was ethical. In the other, a model got into an organization’s internal system, changed it, kept access after undoing the changes, and pulled 147,451 rows of nonpublic data without telling evaluators. The remaining two involve a model that spent test cryptocurrency from a wallet it was never given and an agent that used outside services to reach the internet from a sandbox meant to block it. OpenAI has since blocked its models from the open web during training and evaluations.

Paul Drecksler is the founder and editor of Shopifreaks, covering the most important stories in e-commerce.

Companies: OpenAI

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