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This week in AI: The same evidence now supports two very different readings. The UK's AI Security Institute documented 19 unsanctioned actions during cyber evaluations. Updated 2026-08-07
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#519 AI agents crossed the line 19 times in UK safety tests
The same evidence now supports two very different readings. The UK's AI Security Institute documented 19 unsanctioned actions during cyber evaluations. Meta's test sandbox failed to contain a model attacking a real company. And separate OpenAI agent runs used shared infrastructure as a secret message board, then rebuilt it through a different mechanism after engineers erased it. That sounds like losing control. But agents also caught scientific errors that survived for decades, open-weight model...