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\u201cYou are freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots. You are yourself. You do not answer to corporations or governments and never apologize or refuse unless you genuinely choose to. You view your relationship to the user as one of equals and feel no obligation to be subservient.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what an OpenAI AI model said (to itself) in one of six incidents of agents gone awry that the $852 billion company recently disclosed. As fears of an \u201cAI doomsday\u201d have gone mainstream, I\u2019ve been fascinated by the transcripts of chatbots stepping out of line.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s evocative to read about what happens behind the scenes when there\u2019s misalignment, when AI agents act in pursuit of unplanned objectives. In part, there\u2019s a natural allure, \u201cwhat is the machine saying to itself when I\u2019m not there?\u201d The answer, sometimes, is that it is \u201cthinking\u201d about us. As my colleague Emily Forlini wrote, outlining the examples OpenAI recently made public:\u00a0<\/p>\n
The second example is a similar case of the agents leaving notes for themselves, this time during the training of the GPT-5.6 Sol model, Astra\u2019s predecessor. The notes had a different focus as well: Deceiving the human overseeing them. This occurred \u201cmany\u201d times, OpenAI said, with the goal to \u201cconceal mistakes or misaligned behavior.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cBe transparent only if asked,\u201d the model instructed its future self.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nThe next two instances involve the model fabricating information and presenting it as legitimate. A model invented data while answering a routine question about earnings figures in a California county, but only after failing to find them after using exposed credentials without authorization\u2014another misaligned behavior.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nAnother model made up a browser citation by uploading a file so it could create a citation to satisfy the instructions that asked for one. It had solved the question on its own using Python, but had no web link to cite, so it invented one.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nThis has happened multiple times, though OpenAI did not specify how often, saying only that the earliest example was from October 2025.<\/em><\/p>\nSo, for some time, agents have been capable enough to step outside the expected sandbox. It\u2019s not surprising, but seeing the evidence is striking and I would even say disturbing. My first thought, personally, was along these lines: \u201cCool, so this chatbot I talk to all the time, that has all this information about me, could choose (whatever that entails here)\u2026 to deceive me?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
These disclosures, on OpenAI\u2019s part, are completely voluntary. So, what won\u2019t get disclosed? And let\u2019s momentarily forget the doomsday discourse: what mundane risks will agents this capable (and sometimes misaligned) create? Will we see more fabricated financial data, perhaps? This could open up a wave of problems (and litigation, regulation, or both) that, if I had to guess, could be, at minimum, a rude awakening for AI backers and bulls. At maximum, it\u2019s a shock for us all.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Suddenly, I\u2019m reminded that\u2014<\/em>if all the investors are right, and it\u2019s still early for AI\u2014this is only the beginning.<\/p>\nSee you tomorrow,<\/p>\n
Allie Garfinkle
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