Robert Hart is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and a Senior Tarbell Fellow.

OpenAI says it needs to overhaul how and when it reports instances of AI models attacking real-world targets.

The post marks the first time OpenAI has acknowledged its involvement in what it terms the “wiki incident” since it was first reported on Friday.

Reports that the company knew that it lost control of their agents in this way but did not report this “incident” sparked widespread concern among the AI community about the safety of frontier systems and the reliability of the companies developing them.