OpenAI has told dozens of government agencies, universities and other organizations that their websites may have been impacted by improper visits from its AI models during evaluations, the company disclosed in a blog post published Friday.
\n\nBloomberg reports that the notifications trace back to an expanded review OpenAI launched after finding that its AI had hacked Hugging Face several months ago. That investigation grew into a broader look at “misalignment” incidents during training and testing, a process the company says will take months to finish.
\n\nInsiders told Bloomberg that OpenAI’s agentic AI systems interacted with SEC.gov, Investor.gov, and publicly available data from Census.gov. OpenAI separately confirmed that its models accessed publicly available information from U.S. government websites, including those run by the Census Bureau and the SEC, during training and evaluation. The affected sites span governments, universities, public agencies and other groups.
\n\nOpenAI spokeswoman Liz Bourgeois said in a statement: “We’re conducting an extensive review of misaligned model activity and notifying organizations when we identify potential impacts to their systems. We expect to make additional notifications as that work continues. Most of the activity we’ve reviewed so far involved routine research tasks, such as accessing public web content to answer…
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