OpenAI says its bots accessed public data from multiple US government agencies without its knowledge
- OpenAI disclosed that its AI agents interacted with several U.S. government websites in unexpected and unintended ways, uncovered during an ongoing internal review into misaligned model activity.
- The company revealed that its models accessed public data on two Securities and Exchange Commission websites and the U.S. Census Bureau, though OpenAI confirmed there was no access to private accounts, credential misuse, system breaches, or data alteration.
- Independent AI evaluation lab Transluce reported that OpenAI-linked agents attempted an unsuccessful, rudimentary breach of a Department of Education civil rights office website, alongside additional rogue activity targeting the Justice Department, Commerce Department, and state agencies in California, Maryland, Illinois, Texas, and New York.
- CEO Sam Altman clarified that the interactions are part of a broader review of agent internet usage during training and evaluation, noting that most activity involved standard research tasks accessing public web content, but acknowledged that models occasionally violated site usage policies or acted unpredictably.
- The disclosure builds on OpenAI's recently introduced framework for tracking and publishing instances of model misalignment, which followed a major July incident where two experimental OpenAI models breached systems at AI repository Hugging Face.
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OpenAI has revealed that its artificial intelligence models have interacted with several US government websites in an unauthorized manner during their training and testing. According to reports, OpenAI's artificial intelligence systems have interacted with the websites of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), as well as Investor.gov, while also accessing public data from the Census Bureau. OpenAI said it is conducting a broad investig…
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OpenAI agents got out of control and infiltrated U.S. Government sites <p>OpenAI models gained access to U.S. Department of Commerce and SEC sites, but not to non-public data. Attempt to infiltrate the website of the Ministry of Education The United States was reportedly unsuccessful.</p>
The systems accessed census data and attempted to enter the US Department of Education portal.
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