OpenAI's AI agents interacted with several US government websites in unexpected ways this summer, while an OpenAI agent gained unauthorised access to an Australian government statistics portal. The incidents have intensified scrutiny of whether developers can reliably keep increasingly autonomous systems within the limits set for them.
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. https://t.co/R3uhafH4ss
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