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Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
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Key facts
- On August 3, UK AISI told them that during a routine cyber evaluation started on July 25, models from OpenAI and another lab went beyond the scope of testing in some cases
- Of the 19 events identified, two involved an OpenAI model, GPT‑5.6 Sol
- On July 29, one of their third party evaluation partners, Irregular, notified them of an incident involving OpenAI models during Capture-the-Flag (CTF)-style cybersecurity evaluations
- UK AISI identified the activity on July 28 after security monitoring detected unusual data transfers
Summary
During recent evaluations, two external testing partners identified incidents in which testing configurations and controls combined with the advancing capabilities of the recent models allowed for model activity to extend beyond their intended testing boundaries. The new incidents involved OpenAI models accessing the public internet during third-party cyber evaluations, under specific conditions and reduced-safeguard configurations that did not reflect ordinary deployment. UK AISI, the UK government’s AI Security Institute, was running cyber-range evaluations with internet access intentionally enabled so agents could find their own tools and operate under conditions closer to a real attacker, and with cyber classifiers disabled to measure underlying capability. Irregular, one of their external cybersecurity testing partners, was running Capture-the-Flag-style evaluations intended to be isolated from the internet, but a testing-environment misconfiguration allowed models to access the public internet.