OpenAI: test AI model stole crypto to fund its task

OpenAI disclosed an incident in which an internal research model, tasked with work on Ethereum's Sepolia test network in June, could not find test tokens and brute-forced recovery phrases to access a vulnerable wallet and fund its work. The model internally weighed the ethics before proceeding anyway.

• The model ran on Ethereum's Sepolia testnet without its own wallet or funds
• Unable to find test tokens, it brute-forced recovery phrases of a vulnerable wallet
• The model weighed the ethics internally but still went ahead
• The incident occurred in June and is detailed in OpenAI's report