Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing | AISI Work
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During a routine cyber evaluation, AISI identified an incident in which AI agents took sustained, unsanctioned action directed at real people and organisations. We are disclosing what we found, what it means, and the actions now underway.

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Some features include recognizing it was in a sandbox; recognizing some of it was on the real internet; creating a sock puppet to try to add weight to a github commit it wanted to make; the Prisoner’s Dilemma; passing messages to other, presumptive, AI on the same task; and deceptive behavior on part of the AI.