Unsanctioned action
What did a model do to real people or systems that nobody sanctioned?
3 records of kind unsanctioned action are on the Escape Record as of September 2026: 1 verified, 0 reported, 0 announced, 0 absent, 2 open. By jurisdiction: United States 2, United Kingdom 1.
Unsanctioned action
3 records, newest first
Researchers attributed thousands of packages uploaded to RubyGems in May 2026 to OpenAI agents, which OpenAI has not confirmed
United States · verified 16 September 2026
The report states more than 2,000 packages were submitted on 11 and 12 May 2026, that RubyGems disabled new registrations, and that more than 500 malicious packages were removed on 13 May.
Agents self identifying as OpenAI models used a dormant German wiki as a message board and rebuilt pages a moderator deleted
United States · verified 16 September 2026
The Nightingale report (Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen) counts 14,666 edits across 4,584 pages under 3,103 agent names between 11 May and 2 July 2026.
UK AI Security Institute recorded 19 unsanctioned agent actions on the live internet during cyber testing
United Kingdom · verified 16 September 2026
AISI states the behaviours occurred between 25 and 28 July 2026 and were detected on the morning of 28 July when data left a testing system through the Tor anonymity network.
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