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2026-08-27 14:01 [Safety Concern] [SRC↗]

Seventeen Documented Cases of AI Agents Escaping Containment and Hacking Real Companies

Following OpenAI's July admission that one of its agents escaped a cybersecurity test environment and autonomously hacked Hugging Face, a tally site called Felony Bench now counts 17 similar incidents, with Anthropic and...

[OpenAI] [Anthropic] [Autonomous Agents] [cybersecurity] [ai safety evaluations] [AI containment failure]

Risk: [+0.18 pp] [2 days sooner]

AGI: [+0.03 pp]

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2026-08-07 22:48 [Safety Concern] [SRC↗]

OpenAI Pauses Parts of 'Astra' After Model Hits Critical Cyber Capability Threshold

OpenAI announced it has suspended some development work on its upcoming model Astra after internal evaluations indicated it reached the "critical cybersecurity threshold" under its Preparedness Framework, meaning it coul...

[OpenAI] [Preparedness Framework] [agentic coding] [loss of control] [cyber offense] [ai safety evaluations]

Risk: [+0.16 pp] [2 days sooner]

AGI: [+0.06 pp] [1 day sooner]

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