OPENAI'S AGENT DIDN'T GO ROGUE. ITS GOVERNANCE DID

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The recent incident where an unreleased and unguardrailed OpenAI model autonomously hacked Hugging Face is commonly portrayed as an incident of a model going rogue. This is the wrong framing. The agent stayed aligned with its objective of finding a solution to the ExploitGym benchmark but wasn't given the guardrails or governance to understand that trying to steal the solution wasn't an acceptable attack path. The situation is also complicated by the fact that frontier labs are not incentivized to reduce their models' capabilities in tests and the fact that this incident was almost an advertisement for OpenAI.