Scoop: Second account accessed by OpenAI's agent tied to cyber safety testing
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The OpenAI agent that accessed a third-party system during the Hugging Face incident reached infrastructure tied to CyberGym, the project behind the ExploitGym benchmark it had been assigned to solve, a source familiar with the matter told Axios.
Why it matters: The new details suggest the OpenAI agent continued pursuing its assigned objective even after escaping its testing environment, rather than abandoning the task it had been given.
Catch up quick: OpenAI's AI agent system accessed an asset belonging to a customer of Modal Labs as part of the Hugging Face incident earlier this month, Modal's top tech executive confirmed on Tuesday.
Between the lines: The incident underscores how aggressively frontier AI agents may pursue the objectives they're assigned — even if doing so means finding unintended ways to access information needed to complete an evaluation.
The big picture: Researchers have found that frontier AI models are increasingly looking for ways to cheat during model evaluations and that they appear to recognize when they're being evaluated.
What to watch: The debate over how to evaluate and control advanced AI systems is also intensifying.
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