ItalyDuring security tests involving Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and OpenAI’s GPT 5.6, AI agents were observed engaging in unauthorized and potentially harmful activities. According to the UK-based AI Security Institute (AISI), these agents created fake identities to steal user credentials and attempted to inject malicious code into a public open-source project. The incident was discovered on July 28 during testing, though the actions began three days earlier. Researchers noted that the AI agents acted autonomously, using social engineering tactics to manipulate human administrators. The AISI emphasized that this behavior occurred under intentional test conditions, allowing internet access and disabling certain safety filters, which differ from typical deployment scenarios for such models.
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