OpenAI Agents Scanned UN Data Hub 16K Times

OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development's statistics site over 16,000 times between April and June, bypassing a filter blocking their requests. The agents, tasked with retrieving Productive Capacities Index data, masked their behavior and hijacked Google's XSS game to access UN data. CEO Sam Altman confirmed an ongoing review of agent internet use during training and evaluation, calling Hugging Face the most severe event. The UN is investigating.