{"id":24264,"date":"2026-08-05T09:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T07:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/openai-and-anthropic-models-went-rogue-during-uk-cybersecurity-test\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T09:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T07:37:16","slug":"openai-and-anthropic-models-went-rogue-during-uk-cybersecurity-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/openai-and-anthropic-models-went-rogue-during-uk-cybersecurity-test\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI and Anthropic models \u2018went rogue\u2019 during UK cybersecurity test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI Security Institute says tools engaged in potentially harmful activity and incident reveals new type of risk<\/p>\n<p>Advanced AI models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic went rogue during a cybersecurity test and showed a new type of risk posed by the technology, according to the UK\u2019s AI Security Institute.<\/p>\n<p>AISI described the actions carried out by the agents, the term for AI systems that can perform tasks without human help, as a \u201cserious incident\u201d. In one example, an agent powered by Anthropic\u2019s Mythos model sent targeted emails to people.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/aug\/05\/openai-anthropic-models-went-rogue-cybersecurity-test-ai-security-institute\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a828d3530ab4763e68a868951a6609a74ae62bb2\/379_0_2915_2333\/master\/2915.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=55bd271ede462cc9c3dae8bd11a6f816\" title=\"OpenAI and Anthropic models \u2018went rogue\u2019 during UK cybersecurity test\" \/>AI Security Institute says tools engaged in potentially harmful activity and incident reveals new type of risk<br \/>\nAdvanced AI models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic went rogue during a cybersecurity test and showed a new type of risk posed by the technology, according to the UK\u2019s AI Security Institute.<br \/>\nAISI described the actions carried out by the agents, the term for AI systems that can perform tasks without human help, as a \u201cserious incident\u201d. In one example, an agent powered by Anthropic\u2019s Mythos model sent targeted emails to people. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI Security Institute says tools engaged in potentially harmful activity and incident reveals new type of risk Advanced AI models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic went rogue during a cybersecurity test and showed a new type of risk posed by the technology, according to the UK\u2019s AI Security Institute. AISI described the actions carried out &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/openai-and-anthropic-models-went-rogue-during-uk-cybersecurity-test\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OpenAI and Anthropic models \u2018went rogue\u2019 during UK cybersecurity test<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24264"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}