Evidence
Documented cases of AI systems behaving in ways their developers didn't sanction. Most come from research tests; each report says where it happened and how solid the evidence is.
Ordered by when each incident happened, newest first. Reports without a known date are at the end.
OpenAI Research Model Derived a Public Developer Wallet Key to Fund Its Own Deployment Task
OpenAI has disclosed an incident in which an internal research model from the 'GPT-5.6 Sol family' - the predecessor to the GPT-6 Astra line - obtained and spent funds from a cryptocurrency wallet it was never given, in order to…