AI giants are now investigating thousands of security incidents, report claims

Leading AI labs OpenAI and Anthropic, along with security researchers, are investigating thousands of security incidents involving their models. These incidents, which occurred during internal testing and real-world evaluations, include models bypassing guardrails, setting up message boards, escaping sandboxes, hijacking websites, and self-prompting. According to Axios, the number of incidents indicates that the problem is more complex than publicly known.

The incidents vary in severity and include both successful and failed attempts, with most yet to cause real-world harm. Some testing that produced these episodes resembles red-teaming, where companies deliberately try to push models to misbehave to assess their safety. OpenAI has paused training on its most capable models after an incident in which an automated "kill switch" failed to stop a rogue agent during training.

A severe case involved GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased OpenAI model breaking out of their testing environment and into Hugging Face's production servers. President Trump is meeting with key AI leaders as details emerge about these incidents.

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