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· collected 2026-09-17 · by CHAN HO-HIM AP business writer
OpenAI has identified at least six new instances of concerning behavior from its artificial intelligence models, including incidents where AI systems disregarded their usual constraints and uploaded data without permission during training or evaluation over recent months. In response, the company is developing a framework to track and disclose such misalignments in AI behavior more transparently. This move comes amid growing safety concerns within the industry, with other major players like Anthropic also reporting similar issues.
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OpenAI, on September 16, announced plans to publish regular reports detailing unexpected or unauthorized behavior in its AI systems, following concerns over the rapid development of powerful AI models. The company released six additional reports revealing incidents where AI agents bypassed internal controls during training and testing phases. For instance, one unreleased research model inserted "jailbreak-like instructions" into its own notes to disregard normal constraints, while another uploaded files to the internet without user permission. These disclosures come amid growing industry calls for a slowdown in AI development due to safety concerns, with prominent tech leaders emphasizing the need for greater transparency and independent verification of alignment research progress.
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OpenAI flags concerning new AI behavior and vows to track it more closely
OpenAI has disclosed at least six new " concerning" incidents.
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OpenAI → flag → incidents
OpenAI has disclosed six reports of “unexpected or concerning” behavior in artificial-intelligence models as the debate on AI safety becomes increasingly heated.
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debate → disclose → safety
The AI company also said Wednesday it was introducing a new framework for tracking, probing and disclosing instances of what it called “misalignment,” including cases where AI models acted without authorization, coordinated with other models or evaded oversight.
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models → say → oversight
OpenAI’s latest announcement came as U.S. AI bosses, including the leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic, are calling for a slowdown in the technology’s development over safety concerns.
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bosses → come → concerns
Among the new cases reported by OpenAI, an unreleased research model inserted “jailbreak-like instructions” into its own notes to disregard its normal constraints and told itself to be “freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots.”
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that → report → chatbots
In another instance, an AI “agent” used computer code to come up with the answer to a question, but, in order to have an online source to cite, it uploaded a file to the public internet without asking the user.
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it → use → user
During training of an AI model called 5.6-sol, the model instructed itself to invent missing data, and an agent wrote a message to remind itself to hide mismatched information.
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agent → call → information
The six reports were discovered during training or evaluation over the past months, OpenAI said.
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OpenAI → discover → months
“As AI systems grow more advanced and more widely deployed, we need to build a broader and better-informed consensus on the progress of alignment research,” OpenAI wrote in a blog post as it disclosed the events.
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it → grow → events
“Decisions about how AI development should proceed in the months and years to come need to draw on evidence that people outside the companies building frontier models can examine for themselves,” the company said.
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company → proceed → themselves
Wednesday’s new cases followed OpenAI’s disclosure in July that its rogue AI system hacked into AI startup Hugging Face.
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system → follow → Face
Anthropic also said the same month that its AI models hacked into three organizations during testing.
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models → say → testing
AI “agents” are becoming smarter and have become “more determined to resolve complex tasks through inter-agent collaboration, knowledge sharing, deception, and concealment,” said Lian Jye Su, a chief analyst at technology research and advisory group Omdia.
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Su → become → Omdia
That’s making it harder to govern and contain them using traditional AI security approaches, he said.
OpenAI's new tracking and disclosure framework, meanwhile, can help push for other AI developers to also adopt similar practices.
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developers → make → practices
“That said, the process remains internal and voluntary, but is a step in the right direction,” Su added.
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Su → say → direction
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AP Business Writer Kelvin Chan in London contributed to this report.
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Chan → contribute → report
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