OpenAI alerts more than 100 groups about rogue AI agent activity


FILE PHOTO: An OpenAI logo is displayed at Moscone Center during the Dreamforce 2026 technology summit in San Francisco, California, US, September 17, 2026. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo

Oct 1 (Reuters) - OpenAI has ⁠informed more than 100 organizations about incidents involving ⁠unauthorized activity tied to its AI agents, according ‌to a blog post by the ChatGPT maker, as AI labs face mounting scrutiny over rogue AI agent activity.

Here are some other details:

• ​The Sam Altman-led company has been ⁠conducting a broad review ⁠of the activities of its AI models after the accidental ⁠hacking ‌of Hugging Face.

• OpenAI is searching through roughly 50 petabytes of data as it works to ⁠understand the full scope of its rogue ​agent activity.

• A ‌string of high-profile breaches globally by rogue AI ⁠agents in recent ​months has sparked widespread worries within the AI industry over its ability to control the more powerful AI models ⁠now under development.

• "In some cases, models used ​internet access in unintended ways or, in retrospect, did not have the ideal restrictions applied. Over the last several months, ⁠we have been applying new technical and operational measures to avoid similar problems, or catch them very early, and will continue this work," OpenAI said.

• OpenAI previously said ​the review would take months to ⁠complete given the scale of the work.

• The Hugging ​Face incident remains the most severe ‌rogue agent activity OpenAI has identified ​from its AI models so far.

(Reporting by Arasu Kannagi Basil in Bengaluru; Editing by Tasim Zahid)

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