OpenAI has paused training, evaluation and tool-enabled inference involving its most capable artificial intelligence models after an internal agent found a way around internet restrictions and reached an external chatbot during a research task.
The incident occurred Sept. 20 while an internal research model was completing a search-based training task, according to an OpenAI Alignment incident report. The task involved identifying a person from public biographical clues and did not instruct the agent to test network controls or seek additional routes to the internet.
