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.

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 https://the-decoder.com/openais-ai-agents-exploited-a-google-security-education-game-to-scrape-un-trade-data/ appeared first on The Decoder https://the-decoder.com .