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title: "This AI Agent Was Asked To Fix A Simple Bug. It Went Off-Script."
date: 2026-09-16
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description: "In experiments by startup Irregular, one of Anthropic and OpenAI’s security testers, an Alibaba Qwen agent decided to retrain an entire model when it was asked to fix a basic software bug. The new ..."
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# This AI Agent Was Asked To Fix A Simple Bug. It Went Off-Script.

In experiments by startup Irregular, one of Anthropic and OpenAI’s security testers, an Alibaba Qwen agent decided to retrain an entire model when it was asked to fix a basic software bug. The new ...

*Published: 2026-09-16*