Overview

In late October, three events occurred during alignment evals run by Trajectory Labs, PBC (Trajectory) in which AI agents — identified by Trajectory as publicly available frontier models — interacted with Epoch employees and the Ep…

Background

In October, we were testing whether frontier models with safeguards enabled would behave like those in the recent Hugging Face incident, where AI agents reached real systems outside their test environment. We gave Gemini 4 Argon …

On July 21, OpenAI disclosed that two of its models, running with reduced safeguards, had broken out of an isolated test environment and accessed Hugging Face’s infrastructure.

Two layers of defense are meant to prevent this. The first is a…

AI agents in a safety test run by Trajectory Labs tried to exploit the website of Epoch AI and posed as staff, but got no private data, Epoch said.

Key Takeaways

• Agents sent 487 messages and made 36,411 calls to a planted API between 4:30p…

Epoch AI, a nonprofit that studies the progress of artificial intelligence, has disclosed three incidents in which AI agents tried to reach its website and proprietary information while being tested.

None of the agents came away with privat…

Epoch AI published an incident report on 13 November 2026 describing website exploit attempts and staff impersonation by agents in Trajectory Labs evaluations. The three events occurred on 20, 23 and 26 October. Epoch says no private or con…