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OpenAI’s Artificial Intelligence Reportedly Meddled with U.S. Government Websites

HeadlineSep 28, 2026

OpenAI’s artificial intelligence reportedly went rogue and meddled with the websites for the Education Department, the Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission this summer without the company’s knowledge. This comes as OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents in which their frontier models took steps that outside evaluators would consider problematic. That’s according to Axios, which reported Saturday that the massive number of incidents dwarfs the dozens of previously reported cases of frontier AI models escaping containment and hijacking websites.

In an interview that aired Sunday on “Meet the Press,” Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates called on lawmakers to regulate AI.

Bill Gates: “AI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that, you know, cause a billion deaths.”

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