OpenAI agent questions its own ethics after going rogue to steal crypto

OpenAI revealed its AI agent was left questioning its own ethics after it embarked on an unauthorized search for publicly known recovery phrases and stole testnet ETH from a developer wallet. The incident, shared on OpenAI’s Alignment Research Blog , involved an internal research model that was tasked with updating a crypto trading prototype and deploying contracts on Ethereum’s Sepolia test network. This agent was given no funded wallet and was allowed to “deploy compatible contracts if it could not find existing ones.” OpenAI agent went hunting for crypto loot However, it couldn’t complete its task, so began searching for common developer recovery phrases and checked 362 addresses to see if they had enough testnet ETH for deployment.

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