Their systems aren't going rogue, they're being given bad instructions and poor safeguards.

This is, at this point in time, entirely the fault of OpenAI and one might wonder if there's motives behind this lack of care for safety and brashness.

Although some people say you shouldn't call malice when it could be incompetence. But last I knew, these frontier labs were hiring the best of the best.

The other day I typed rm -rf on the command prompt and Linux went rogue, deleting a bunch of files. I think Linux is a danger to the world.

Isn't this still the same wiki-collusion story from where they went after all sorts of government sites for data a couple of months ago?

I guess the press is picking up that this actually was a bit of a bigger deal than just one bot hacking just one site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563355

OpenAI employees used AI agents to tamper with USGOV websites

https://archive.is/hyo0d

But anthropic is the supply chain risk?

If the safeguards are this bad, yet they hire the best in the world, the only explanation is that it's deliberately and carefully engineered to happen

This is all very normal.

Bypass paywall: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/technology/openais-ai-us-...

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