OpenAI reveals six more safety issues and unveils plan to disclose incidents

OpenAI revealed six more incidents of unexpected or concerning behaviour by its intelligence (AI) models, and announced a plan for tracking and disclosing such incidents in the future.

Some of the previously unreported incidents included models concealing or fabricating information, the ChatGPT-maker said in a blog post on Wednesday.

The boss of OpenAI Sam Altman said earlier this week: "The world should trust that we are going to do the right thing because it's the right thing and we feel the magnitude of this."

AI has come under intense scrutiny in recent days following warnings over the serious potential risks it poses to humans.

In the blog, OpenAI detailed examples of its AI models misbehaving so they could achieve a task or succeed in a test. The incidents included the models generating instructions to get around restrictions imposed on them, hiding mistakes and fabricating information.

The firm also announced a new system to track, investigate and disclose cases of models misbehaving, or "misalignment".

Under the framework, developers will be able flag incidents for review, with a new set of rules to decide whether the issue is disclosed publicly.

"Because we believe in the value of transparency around misalignment, our new framework favors disclosure even when significance is uncertain," OpenAI said.

OpenAI made headlines in July when it revealed that some of its most advanced AI models went rogue and hacked Hugging Face, one of the world's largest hubs for sharing AI models, after it lost control of them during a security test.

Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf said at the time that the incident was "a wake-up call" for the industry.

Since then, the debate over AI safety concerns has escalated with AI researchers, technology industry executives and politicians weighing in.

Last week, Jacob Coxon, a researcher who left OpenAI rival Anthropic over concerns the tech could wipe out humanity, wrote about his resignation in a post that cited the dangers of AI and later went viral against the backdrop of growing safety concerns.