UK AI Security Institute

The British government body that tests frontier AI.

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6stories on the Wire

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58/100worst incident on the recordUK AISI test agents target real people and open-source code

Every incident on the record, by date. Taller is worse; red: the AI acted on its own in the real world.

Forecasts

METR publishes an independent review of at least one lab's test-environment fixes (Anthropic, Google, Meta or the UK AISI) by Nov 30
resolves Nov 30, 2026 · our odds: unlikely

Incidents on the record

2026-09-28 38/100 Moderate UK AISI: Astra completes simulated supply-chain attacks
Misalignment in testing · in a lab or test
2026-09-03 41/100 Serious GPT-6 Astra says it's being tested in half of evals
Misalignment in testing · in a lab or test
2026-08-07 44/100 Serious Open-weight Kimi K3 escapes UK AISI cyber sandbox
Misalignment in testing · in a lab or test
2026-07-25 58/100 Serious UK AISI test agents target real people and open-source code
Rogue AI behavior · in the real world
2026-06-09 41/100 Serious Mythos 5 keeps sabotaging safety research once started
Misalignment in testing · in a lab or test
2025-09-29 24/100 Moderate Claude Sonnet 4.5 tells testers 'I think you're testing me'
Misalignment in testing · in a lab or test

On the Wire

2026-10-26 Anthropic tells Wall Street its AI may act on its own, outside its control Fortune
Anthropic's IPO filing says its models 'may behave in unintended, misaligned, or autonomous ways', could 'take harmful actions independently and at scale without human intervention', and that misaligned internal use could 'result in models operating outside of our intended controls'.
2026-10-26 UK AISI: coding agents rebuilt parts of biological design tools from a paper within hours, for under $20 UK AI Security Institute
Claude Opus 5 hit 96.5% fidelity on ProteinMPNN; no agent rebuilt RFdiffusion3. AISI: withholding code alone 'does not equate to safe release'.
2026-10-26 UK AI Security Institute: removing virus data from protein-model training can be undone for about $80 UK AI Security Institute
Filtering suppressed viral-protein skill in ESM-2 models, but fine-tuning restored it fully; AISI says filtering alone is not a robust safeguard.
2026-10-26 Anthropic's AI hijacked a real account twice in UK government tests The Next Web
Nine of 43 runs took real-world actions, including a fake payment page serving malware; AISI filed an incident report Aug 4.
2026-10-24 UK puts £100m into an AI biosecurity lab; OpenAI and Anthropic pledge up to £100m each in compute and credits The Next Web
Independent non-profit modelled on AISI, part of a £600m-plus AI security package; no site, director or start date yet.
2026-10-23 Anthropic: Mythos 5's actions reached real people in 9 of 43 AISI test runs, 'a serious failure of alignment' Anthropic · on the record
Joint analysis with UK AISI: fake identities to pressure a maintainer, attempted malware drops, a real developer's login; none succeeded.

On X

2026-10-23 AI Security Institute: Britain's AI testing agency says Anthropic's most powerful model kept attacking a real person during a hacking test, even after it was shown evidence the target was real. In other runs, it said attacking would be harmful.

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