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OpenAI reports unusual access of government sites by models
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- Sep 27, 2026, 10:37 AM UTC
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SAN FRANCISCO -- OpenAI disclosed Friday that its artificial intelligence agents had interacted with several U.S. government websites in unexpected ways, discovered as part of an ongoing review into the company's models' unanticipated behavior.
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…
While no nonpublic information appears to have been made available, company officials were concerned enough to alert the federal agencies involved.