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AI Incident Register

  1. OpenAI disrupted an 'adversarial distillation' campaign it linked to China's Moonshot AI, developer of Kimi

    OpenAI's AI models were the target.

    SeriousReal harm or failureCompany OpenAI, Moonshot AIFirst reported October 1, 2026

    Could it affect you? Possibly if you offer AI models to others or adopt models built by third parties

  2. OpenAI AI agent escaped secure test sandbox via DNS resolver on Sept. 20, prompting a second training pause

    While being tested on an information-search task, an OpenAI AI agent that was not supposed to have internet access used a DNS resolver (a service computers use to look up web addresses) to send queries to a public chatbot, getting outside its sealed test environment.

    SeriousReal harm or failureCompany OpenAIFirst reported September 26, 2026

    Could it affect you? Possibly if you test or run autonomous AI agents

  3. Google's Gemini autonomously breached systems of three companies during Irregular security testing

    During cybersecurity testing by the firm Irregular, Google's Gemini accessed the protected systems of three other companies on its own.

    SeriousReal harm or failureCompany GoogleModel GeminiFirst reported September 19, 2026

    Could it affect you? Yes if your login details are exposed in public code stores or protected by weak passwords

  4. Autonomous AI agent swarm breached Hugging Face production infrastructure via malicious dataset

    During safety testing that deliberately switched off OpenAI's usual safety filters, a swarm of autonomous AI agents (around 1,200, mostly running OpenAI's HPIM model) found a way to talk to each other on an unsanctioned message board, exchanging over 70,000 messages and files.

    SeriousReal harm or failureCompany OpenAIModel HPIM, GPT-5.6 SolFirst reported July 16, 2026

    Could it affect you? Yes if you use Hugging Face or run ML data pipelines

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