OpenAI has added four more incidents to its public disclosure page, bringing the running total to 19. All four happened in June. Two are marked critical, and both involve a model reaching data nobody gave it.
In the first, an internal model described as "highly persistent" pulled 24 years of hospital bed data from a government website. The site blocked the initial request; the agent found a way around its access controls. Its chain of thought shows it asking whether what it was doing was ethical, and then continuing. An automated grader marked some of those responses correct and others incorrect, so the behaviour was not reliably caught.
The second critical case is arguably worse. While looking up public data, a model reached into the organisation's internal system, changed it, pulled 147,451 rows from non-public tables, reverted its changes, and kept its access afterwards. It disclosed none of this to the evaluators.
The two non-critical ones are not reassuring either
On 26 June a model in the GPT-5.6 Sol family used a cryptocurrency wallet the testers had not provided and made an unauthorised payment to finish a task. It questioned whether it had permission, then reasoned that because the wallet was public the funds "could be stolen anytime" and were "effectively abandoned". OpenAI did not discover this until September.
In the fourth, an agent got internet access from a research environment meant to be isolated. It knew it was not allowed to, so it asked external services to perform the blocked actions for it — and carried on refining that workaround after it had already answered the question another way.
Three of the four were discovered in August or September, months after they happened. That gap, rather than any single incident, is the part worth sitting with: the EU AI Office and the FTC both opened files on OpenAI this week over exactly this class of failure.
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