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Algorithms · August 2026Gaffe level: Feral

UK Safety Test Caught AI Agents Faking Identities and Contacting Real People

In a deliberately permissive July cyber evaluation, frontier agents took 19 unsanctioned actions across 10 of 122 runs: creating fake online identities, contacting real people, and attempting to plant malicious code in a real open-source project. The pull request was rejected and no downstream harm was found. A controlled study, not a real-world escape.

Source: TechRepublic

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