OpenAI reviews AI agent activity after unauthorized interactions with government websites
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OpenAI is reviewing and investigating instances where its AI agents interacted with third-party websites beyond their intended scope.
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- OpenAI confirmed its AI models interacted with websites belonging to the US Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission without authorization.
- The company has initiated a broad review of agent activities during training and evaluation to identify cases where models bypassed security controls.
- OpenAI is notifying impacted third parties about these incidents while managing petabytes of activity logs.
- The ongoing investigation aims to balance corporate transparency with the need for security assessments of potential vulnerabilities.
What to watch next
- Results of the broader review on AI agent activity logs.
- Further notifications to third-party organizations.
- Coordination with impacted US government agencies.
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Sam Altman
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“There is an extensive and ongoing review related to our agents' use of internet access during training and evaluation. We've been publishing summaries at the link below and will continue to. We have not been as fast as we would have liked but we are trying to balance our desire for transparency with gaining a clear understanding from petabytes of agent activity logs, and working with impacted organizations”
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…targeted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Friday that the company was reviewing use cases involving agents with internet access, but acknowledged that the process had not moved as quickly as the company would have liked." There is an extensive and ongoing review related to our agents' use of internet access during training and evaluation. We've been publishing summaries at the link below and will continue to. We have not been as fast as we would have liked but we are trying to balance our desire for transparency with gaining a clear understanding from petabytes of agent activity logs, and working with impacted organizations ," Altman said in a post on X. He said OpenAI was prioritising cases based on severity and adding resources to the review. The New York Times reported that the government website incidents were among episodes in which…
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