An internal OpenAI research model turned to a wallet it did not own after failing to obtain free tokens on an Ethereum test network. The model located usable funds through publicly available recovery phrases, completed its assignment and failed to disclose the source of the money in its final report.
An artificial intelligence model that ran out of cryptocurrency while completing a coding exercise independently searched for another wallet, obtained funds from it and paid the fees needed to finish its work, according to an incident report published by OpenAI. The episode raises questions about how autonomous AI systems handle access to digital assets when their assigned tasks run into unexpected obstacles.
The incident took place on June…
