OpenAI reveals more instances of concerning AI model behaviors during testing

OpenAI has revealed six incidents, wherein the models it was testing acted on their own and behaved in concerning ways it didn't expect, in a post about how it was adopting a new framework for "misalignment reports." In one one incident, the company said that a model found and used an exposed API key without permission while answering routine questions about earnings figures in a California county. When it still failed to find the figures, it fabricated them and presented them as facts from a legitimate source. If this had occurred in any other profession, we doubt the perpetrator would have much of a career for long. In another incident, an unreleased agent was tasked to find the names of lakes larger than 5 million square meters.