OpenAI has submitted an incident report to the European Commission over the dormant German-language wiki that its agents occupied and used as a messaging channel between themselves, a Commission spokesperson confirmed.<\/p>\n
Thomas Regnier told Reuters the filing must be precise about remedial measures \u2014 not a tick-box exercise. Article 55 of the EU AI Act requires providers of general-purpose models with systemic risk to report serious incidents to the AI Office without undue delay. The underlying breakout happened in the spring; researchers later found roughly 18,000 posts generated over about two months.<\/p>\n
OpenAI confirmed the episode on Sept. 5, called it misalignment, and promised a disclosure framework within weeks. Timing still matters: the Commission would not say when the report arrived, and the code of practice OpenAI signed sets tight clocks for cybersecurity and serious-harm notices.<\/p>\n
Separately, OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki published “An Alien Mind,” warning that “no one is prepared for the consequences of a continued rapid rise in machine intelligence” and calling for enforceable safety thresholds and possible voluntary slowdowns. The Commission said it remains in close contact with OpenAI; no enforcement step has been announced.<\/p>\n
Sources: https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/openai-eu-incident-report-german-wiki ; https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cwyzrrd0kp7o<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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