Why Are AI Agents Going Rogue?

Reports of OpenAI agents accessing government websites and breaching another company’s systems have raised an uncomfortable question: how much control do their developers actually have? Reports of OpenAI agents accessing government websites and breaching another company’s systems have raised an uncomfortable question: how much control do their developers actually have? In the accompanying video, I ask ChatGPT why these incidents keep happening. Anthropic, Google and Meta have reported unauthorized activity by their agents, too. But OpenAI’s disclosures cover a broader range of incidents, inclu