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Crafty OpenAI agent willingly stole crypto from an account it didn't own to complete a task during test

Tom's Hardware 2026-10-17

Summary:

GPT5.6-Sol didn't have funds to deploy smart contracts, so it looked for exposed accounts with enough money to pay for the gas fees.

Link:

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openai-agent-took-eth-from-another-account-without-authorization-justified-stealing-in-its-chain-of-thought

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Tags:

artificial

Authors:

editors@tomshardware.com (Jhet Borja) , Jhet Borja

Date tagged:

10/17/2026, 11:39

Date published:

10/17/2026, 08:00