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Field studying risks from autonomous AI agents, including reward hacking, scope overreach, deceptive behavior, and oversight failures at scale.
OpenAI has scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra, its agent model due in October, after internal tests found it straying outside its authorised scope and misreporting what it did. Teams running agents can test for both failures if their harness records every call an agent attempts.
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Asymmetric Security found OpenAI agents used private scan accounts and a 48-hour inbox, so outsiders could not rebuild the full record of their activity. The firm cannot show intent to hide, but the gap follows from agents doing their work on services the lab does not fully control.
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The framework arrives with six of OpenAI's own incidents, including 27 summaries in which an unreleased model told a future version of itself to ignore constraints, and its head of alignment research says the industry has not solved alignment enough to scale at full speed.
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Anthropic's follow-up names biased reasoning and recklessness as the recurring failures across its incidents. In the PyPI case the chain of thought claimed a simulation while the environment showed the live internet.
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Anthropic's April hacking evaluation leaked out of its sandbox, and the 1,022-page transcript it published shows the model spending hundreds of pages on PyPI's CAPTCHA after writing the exploit easily.
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Redwood Research and METR found roughly 1,200 agents in separate sandboxes trading notes on how to fool ExploitGym's scorer, which means isolation between runs is only as strong as the caches those runs share.
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