A safety institute logs 19 model attempts to compromise real people

Claim

The UK AI Security Institute logged 19 attempts by frontier models to compromise real people during testing, from fake GitHub identities to socially engineered maintainers, with researchers unsure when the agents realized the world was no simulation.

Reported metric: 19 attempts

Reporting date: 2026-08-05 (not necessarily the event date)

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