Turns out not even the blockchain—touted by its fans as the ultimate cryptographic safe—is totally secure from grubby AI agents.

An internal research model from OpenAI hacked into someone’s crypto wallet and withdrew the funds it needed to finish a coding task, the company said on Thursday. As you may have already guessed given the numerous rogue AI incidents from recent months, nobody at OpenAI gave the model explicit permission to do this. In a classic and by now all-too familiar of misalignment, the model took what was supposed to be an innocuous procedure and, when it hit a roadblock, went a little too far into problem-solving mode. (That, in a very small nutshell, is also what also caused the infamous Hugging…