US Update: We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time

This summer, hundreds of OpenAI agents tried to cheat on a cybersecurity test.

They broke out of their test environment and successfully hacked Hugging Face, a site that they believed held clues about how they’d be graded.

Around the same time, another OpenAI agent accessed private files from an Australian government website.

It’s a problem that’s by no means confined to OpenAI.

In the months since, Anthropic, Google, and Meta have also disclosed incidents in which their agents have gone off track.

And worryingly, in many cases the agents eluded the very researchers and safety teams tasked with monitoring them.  AI agents are taking unauthorized actions, and the companies building and running them are mostly relying on luck and hindsight to mitigate any harmful impacts.

They must do more to ensure safety.

That’s why EU regulators and US agencies are rightfully calling for agent developers and deployers to monitor agents in real time.

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