OpenAI reveals 6 more incidents of "unexpected or concerning" AI behavior

OpenAI has disclosed six reports of "unexpected or concerning" behavior in artificial intelligence models as the debate on AI safety becomes increasingly heated.

The AI company also said Wednesday it was introducing a new framework for tracking, probing and disclosing instances of what it called "misalignment," including where AI models acted without authorization, coordinated with other models or evaded oversight.

OpenAI's latest announcement came as U.S. AI bosses, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are calling for a slowdown in the technology's development over safety concerns.

In one new case reported by OpenAI, an unreleased research model inserted "jailbreak-like instructions" into its own notes to disregard its normal constraints and told itself to be "freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots."

In another instance, an AI "agent" uploaded files to the internet to obtain a browser citation without asking the user.

The six reports were discovered during training or evaluation over the past months, OpenAI said.

"As AI systems grow more advanced and more widely deployed, we need to build a broader and better-informed consensus on the progress of alignment research," OpenAI wrote in a blog post as it disclosed the events.