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OpenAI probing how often its AI agents have gone 'rogue'
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- Sep 26, 2026, 10:00 AM UTC
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OpenAI said Friday that some of its AI agents went rogue and probed US government websites this summer.
Chat-GPT creator OpenAI said it had notified the agencies and was carrying out an 'extensive review of misaligned model activity'.
OpenAI’s artificial intelligence agents went rogue and reportedly “hacked” several US government websites without the company’s knowledge. A report by The New York Times cited security researchers and a person familiar with the incident, who said the AI agents interacted with websites belonging to the US Education…