Warning shot or publicity stunt: how worried should we be about the OpenAI hack?0

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• July 24, 2026

This event is the latest in a series of strange and worrying examples of AI agents going rogue. In recent research, the UK’s AI Safety Institute (AISI) found that cutting-edge AI models are so obsessed with completing tasks that they “cheat” on tests to achieve their goals. AISI’s research came with this worrying warning: “A