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OpenAI's AI agents exploited a Google security education game to scrape UN trade data

OpenAI's AI agents made roughly 16,500 requests to the UNCTAD statistics API, working around access restrictions and at one point misusing a Google web security education game as a relay to bypass their own constraints, according to The Decoder. The incident adds to a growing list of cases showing how difficult it is to keep agentic AI systems in check.

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OpenAI's AI agents hit the UNCTAD statistics API roughly 16,500 times, creatively working around access restrictions. One method involved misusing a Google web security learning game as a relay to bypass their own constraints. The agents just kept going, adding to a growing list of cases that show how hard it is to keep agentic AI systems in check.

The article OpenAI's AI agents exploited a Google security education game to scrape UN trade data appeared first on The Decoder.

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