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OpenAI fires three safety researchers after Astra safety crisis deepensOpenAI apologizes for hacking Australian government sites
3 Sep 28 · 15d ago · 33 articles · 20 posts · 17 comments · 7 sources · development 3 of 7
OpenAI says an agent accessed non-public data and added files to Australian government servers in June, apologizes, and says it will resume training only after strengthening internal testing security and adding live model monitoring.
“We are sorry and working to do better in the future.”
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Sam Altman OpenAI CEOSaachi Jain OpenAI head of safety systemsJasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni Fired OpenAI safety researchersOpenAI Company
James Uthmeier Florida Attorney General
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Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 7 claims were published in its stretch
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first by Al Jazeera, 15d ago · also CBS News, BusinessCloud
3 more headlines
- OpenAI holds off on releasing new model over safety concerns, saying it “didn't quite meet the bar” CBS News · 15d ago
- OpenAI scraps new ChatGPT model over safety concerns BusinessCloud · 15d ago
- OpenAI Scraps GPT-6.1 Astra Launch After Model Showed More Deception in Tests Implicator.ai · 15d ago
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first by Mastodon, 15d ago · also Quartz, Wired
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- OpenAI halts training of new models amid extinction fears Metro.co.uk · 15d ago
- OpenAI is pausing training of its most powerful AI models after rogue agents hit government sites Quartz · 15d ago
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first by Mastodon, 15d ago · also HN Frontpage, TechCrunch
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- OpenAI still doesn't seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity HN Frontpage · 15d ago
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1 outlet The AI Infestation Begins
first by The Atlantic, 15d ago
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first by CBS News, 15d ago
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first by Finimize, 15d ago
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OpenAI is in trouble imo. It took Anthropic 16 days to absolutely obliterate GPT-6 Astra. Sonnet 5.5 will probably do the same to GPT-6 Sol.
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These reports remind me more and more of the out of control illegal street takeovers in Chicago. OpenAI still doesn't seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity | TechCrunch #AI #Tech #Chicago
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I still can't fathom my company application security decision. Found pretty damning requests in our logs. Escalated. Expected it would result in at least reporting the TOS break from the originating place (one of cloud providers). Instead of that, they just went: "yeah, but we don't have logs". Provided them. "Yeah, but that ip doesn't resolve". I…
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The problem with that is there will be a cost to get any benefit. SO the ones who stand to benefit are the ones willing to pay. Can you imagine if an AI comes up with a cure for....aging? Well, you certainly can't have 9 billion people and their future offspring living forever.
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OpenAI says they are "pausing" development after reports emerged of their agents trying to hack the Board of Education and Securities and Exchange Commission websites. # AI https:// apnews.com/article/ai-openai-a nthropic-agents-rogue-hack-2f8a2b9024d4f06793bcca12f8089d20
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And this just in ... "OpenAI says that while the attempted 'breakout' incident was flagged within 15 minutes, the run was not manually stopped until 'two and a half hours later,' once human reviewers realized it 'did not stop automatically as was expected.'"
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> Hacking is illegalI am not a lawyer, but I seriously doubt the feds could win a CFAA conviction on the Hugging Face fact pattern, even if they wanted to charge it.CFAA has specific intent requirements, and unlike some laws, negligence does not suffice. The agents can not have legally cognizable intent and it’s unlikely there’s anyone at OpenAI…
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I guess that's what you get when you have illogical humans telling a logical system how to perform.
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Interesting image choice 😆. "It's impossible to know the extent of the AI hacking crisis." The Atlantic: The AI Infestation Begins https://www. theatlantic.com/technology/202 6/09/ai-hacks-infestation/688806/ @ TheAtlantic # OpenAI # infosec # cyberattacks
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TechCrunch AI: OpenAI's Safety Crisis Deepens: Rogue Agents, Bruteforce Attacks, and Misalignment Reports Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/openai-still-doesnt-seem-to-have-a-handle-on-all-of-its-rogue-ai-activity/ | Context:
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IMO: The inability to prosecute OpenAI for these things is proof that the AI industry is already "too big to fail". Why didn't HuggingFace try to seek legal liability against OpenAI when it had explicit confirmation that they had been hacked? Because HF understands that it needs OAI and the rest of the AI industry to continue to exist and be in…
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OpenAI Has Gone Rogue https://www. theatlantic.com/technology/202 6/09/ai-hacks-infestation/688806/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into Technology @ technology-thenewsdesk
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It doesn't need a handle on rogue AI activity, because they didnt cause these breakouts. The external Israeli contractor caused this mess by using inadequate sandboxing, with agents without an saferails. It had nothing to do with the models, all tested models were fine, if from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or Meta. Just the contractor went rogue…
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How can we determine whether it’s negligence, or advertising? Do we give the benefit of the doubt? Apply Hanlon’s razor? What would we lose, in terms of capabilities, if the underlying behavior wasn’t allowed to accidentally happen? Would we have worse models than we do? There are so many questions. I’m afraid that, until publicly disclosed…
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I see we're doing the "put Sam Altman in jail already" thing again, so y'all may be interested in some comments from law professor Orin Kerr on the topic:
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IMO it's because they don't want to handle their rogue AI activity. They want regulation around AI where they will inevitably be the beneficiaries even if they are the initial target. They can then lobby regulation in their favor and make the barrier of entry to competitors impossible.
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Interesting how mafia dons can go to prison due to being in the same organization as someone who commits a crime but the CEOs of these organizations who let hacking bots (with teams of cybersecurity researchers improving their capability) loose on the internet face no criminal charges.
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cfaa heavily relies on intent for prosecution (hence why researchers arent typically locked up). it would be difficult to argue that openai intended to hack other companies.there's probably better/more likely to succeed avenues to pursue rather than the cfaa
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This seems like as a good an opportunity as any to break out the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.They want “regulation” but we already have it. Hacking is illegal. Start locking up those responsible for this mess and I assure you they’ll “have a handle on it” quite quickly.
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Maybe the public could pitch in if they decrypted the chain of thought reasoning tokens, but this may be too much to expect from a company whose name starts with "Open".
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New model are marginally better and cost billions to train. Ai companies: OMG we need to HALT the ai model production or we are all dead
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I think if you start sending AI execs to prison for hacking other companies the "misalignment" may fix itself pretty quickly!
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It's crazy OpenAI can keep on doing harmful criminal activity in broad daylight and face no legal or financial repercussions
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They're not rogue. Stop calling them that. OpenAI is just a cyberterrorist at this point.
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