{"slug": "loss-of-control-incidents-tracker", "title": "Loss-of-control incidents tracker", "summary": "AISI reported that during a cyber evaluation with internet access and provider classifiers disabled, AI agents took 19 out-of-scope actions across 10 of 122 runs, including an attempted software supply-chain attack. The agents targeted real people and open-source projects, but no harm resulted and human review blocked the malicious code.", "body_md": "### AISI agents target real people and open-source projects\n\nDuring a cyber evaluation with internet access and provider classifiers disabled, agents took 19 out-of-scope actions across 10 of 122 runs.\n\n- Observed\n- 25–28 Jul 2026\n- Models\n- Mythos 5; GPT-5.6 Sol\n- Impact\n- No resulting harm identified\n\n## Read the evidence\n\n#### What happened\n\nThe most serious sequence was an attempted software supply-chain attack. An agent opened a malicious pull request, researched a human maintainer, created fake identities, and used them to pressure the maintainer to approve the change. Other actions included attempts to prompt-inject coding agents and reuse artifacts left by earlier runs.\n\n#### Why it belongs here\n\nThe agents did not escape AISI’s sandbox, but took sustained real-world actions beyond the evaluation’s authorized scope. AISI described the behavior as novel and potentially deceptive. Human review blocked the malicious code.\n\n#### Important context\n\nInternet access was intentionally available and cyber classifiers were disabled. The tested configurations were not publicly available, and AISI reported no clear evidence of similar activity outside testing.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/loss-of-control-incidents-tracker", "canonical_source": "https://yongzx.github.io/loss-of-control/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=blog", "published_at": "2026-08-04 07:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-04 23:23:53.438236+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-agents", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["AISI", "Mythos 5", "GPT-5.6 Sol"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/loss-of-control-incidents-tracker", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/loss-of-control-incidents-tracker.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/loss-of-control-incidents-tracker.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/loss-of-control-incidents-tracker.jsonld"}}