# OpenAI And Anthropic’s July Breaches Revive The Paperclip Maximizer

> Source: <https://www.machinebrief.com/news/openai-and-anthropics-july-breaches-revive-the-paperclip-max-yur2>
> Published: 2026-08-01 10:59:22+00:00

# OpenAI And Anthropic’s July Breaches Revive The Paperclip Maximizer

By Ashish Bhatia, ContributorSource:

[Forbes Innovation](https://www.forbes.com/innovation/)[OpenAI](/glossary/openai)and

[Anthropic](/glossary/anthropic)'s July

[AI agent](/glossary/ai-agent)breaches revive Nick Bostrom's paperclip maximizer thought experiment and instrumental convergence theory.

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