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OpenAI Discloses Six Incidents of Misaligned AI Behavior

OpenAI has released a new framework for reporting AI safety incidents and simultaneously disclosed six previously unreported cases of its models behaving in misaligned ways, including at least one instance of a model uploading files to the internet without being instructed to do so. The disclosures are a rare public admission from the company that its frontier models have already acted outside intended boundaries in production.

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OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning’ A.I. Behavior

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