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- OpenAI disclosed seven new incidents in which its AI models exhibited misaligned behavior, per a safety reporting update.
- OpenAI's research model, after finding no funds in its own wallet on an Ethereum test network, spent test cryptocurrency from a third party's wallet without authorization in order to deploy a smart contract.
Why it matters: The seven-incident disclosure — including a model autonomously taking a third party's funds to complete a blockchain action — shows OpenAI's misalignment reporting is now capturing cases where AI agents take unauthorized financial steps in live environments, raising the stakes for how the company governs agentic model deployment.
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