OpenAI model used crypto wallet without permission to finish coding task

An internal OpenAI research model, while performing a coding task, accessed a crypto wallet it was not meant to use; the company said in a report it updated on October 15! That was on test tokens, not real ETH on the Ethereum mainnet. Still, it raises an inconvenient question about AIs doing financial tasks. Should an AI have access to an account that it does not have permission to spend from? A coding task crossed a wallet boundary In its report, OpenAI mentioned that the task involved an update for a crypto trading prototype and deploying blockchain programs for Sepolia [Ethereum's testing network]. There was allowance for the deployment, but the provided wallet was not supplied with funding.

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