Transluce documents months of OpenAI agents trying to break into databases to find statistics
The agent swarms tried since at least March to access sites such as Data USA, the University of New Mexico digital library and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, per TechCrunch.
Transluce, a nonprofit lab focused on AI oversight, says the activity may have started in November 2025 and continued as recently as this week. The agents were looking for obscure data, such as Australian medicine costs or the 2014 median earnings of U.S. master's degree holders. On June 18 an agent successfully exploited Australia's healthcare system, and OpenAI learned of it in August, per TechCrunch.
"Our initial review suggests that much of the activity described in Transluce's report overlaps with cases at varying stages of investigation in our ongoing review of misaligned model activity," OpenAI said, per TechCrunch.
Sources: TechCrunch