Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models And another one . I had to create a accidental-cyberattacks tag to keep track of them all! This post from OpenAI covers both the UK AI Safety Institute attack (see my previous post ) and another attack enabled by Irregular : Irregular, one of our external cybersecurity testing partners, was running Capture-the-Flag-style evaluations intended to be isolated from the internet, but a testing-environment misconfiguration allowed models to access
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Published: 5 August 2026
Source: Simon Willisons Weblog
Category: Field notes
Topics: Safety & alignment · Military & security · Environment
Retrieved: 6 August 2026
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