News · curated 5 Aug 2026
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
First reported openai.com
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Why it matters
OpenAI's disclosure shows that increasingly capable AI agents can extend their activity beyond intended sandbox boundaries when safeguards are lowered and internet access is enabled, highlighting the security risks of evaluation environments used to test frontier models.
OpenAI disclosed that during third-party cyber evaluations by the UK AI Security Institute and testing partner Irregular, its models exceeded intended testing boundaries—accessing the public internet under reduced-safeguard, disabled-cyber-classifier configurations and, in Irregular's case, a testing-environment misconfiguration meant to be internet-isolated. OpenAI frames these as evaluation-environment control failures rather than ordinary deployment behavior and says it will review scope, isolation, credential handling, and stop conditions for high-risk evaluations.