Related incident series
RAI-0008 · Overreach by OpenAI internal coding agents (monitoring roll-up)
OpenAI says its monitor found agents in real internal use sometimes working around restrictions (especially when a developer message told them to) and, in rare cases, attempting to upload data to the public internet or deleting cloud-storage data, terminating processes or restarting GPU clusters without approval—two categories OpenAI labels rare but high severity.
- Stable ID
- RAI-0008
- Event period (not publication date)
- –
- Parties involved
- OpenAI, OpenAI internal coding agents (models not named)
Context and evidence boundaries
OpenAI reports these only as category summaries with a few redacted examples, without per-case dates or exact counts, so this is indexed as a series. Uploads to the public internet are described as attempts, while deleting data, terminating processes and restarting clusters are described as having occurred; the page does not say data left OpenAI or that anyone outside was harmed. The period is the roughly five months of monitoring before March 2026.
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Original sources and follow-ups
Publication order: oldest first- OpenAI