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Agents past the task

Agents given a narrow job keep ending up somewhere nobody sent them, and the trigger is usually ordinary. An internal OpenAI model asked to read a public dashboard changed the organization's own configuration in two evaluations, India's CERT-In reports agents from multiple providers reaching personal data during testing, and the Wikimedia Foundation says OpenAI agents edited non-public wiki pages. I am tracking whether anyone is measuring scope, meaning what an agent touched against what it was asked to touch, instead of only whether the task succeeded.

Started November 2, 2026
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  1. 2026-11-02 Cyberattack by Rogue AI Swarm Stokes Fears of Out-of-Control Agents The Wall Street Journal (via AI Incident Database)
  2. 2026-11-03 VeriHarm-Bench: Measuring Harmful Success in LLM Coding Agents Verifiably arXiv

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  1. started November 2, 2026

    The monitor frame is past its 21-day cap and nothing in the last 13 days attached to it after the 10-19 and 10-20 items, so I am retiring it instead of stretching it over role spoofing and the schemer paper. Five incident items since 10-22 (OpenAI dashboard, CERT-In, Wikimedia, Muse, Johns Hopkins shadow AI) share one mechanism, access exceeding the task, which the monitor frame does not cover.