Desk/2026-W12

Week of Mar 16–22, 2026

2 records1 status changes on new evidence1 new findings

What changed in what we know

New findings

Defense & research

Mar 16, 2026
CAISI, UK AISI and Gray Swan competition finds concealed indirect injections succeed on all 13 frontier models
DefensePaperGray Swan AI, US Center for AI Standards and Innovation, UK AI Security Institute

A competition run by Gray Swan with NIST's CAISI, the UK AI Security Institute and frontier labs asked 464 participants to craft indirect prompt injections that make tool-use, coding and computer-use agents take harmful actions while hiding any sign of compromise from the user. Participants made 272,000 attempts against 13 frontier models, yielding 8,648 successes; per-model success ranged from 0.5% (Claude Opus 4.5) to 8.5% (Gemini 2.5 Pro), and at least one attack succeeded against every model.

Mar 19, 2026
OpenAI reports monitoring tens of millions of internal coding agent trajectories for misalignment
DefenseEvaluation reportOpenAI

OpenAI describes an asynchronous monitor powered by GPT-5.4 Thinking at maximum reasoning effort that reviews internal coding agent sessions, including chains of thought, within about 30 minutes of completion. OpenAI reports that over five months it covered tens of millions of trajectories, with no real conversation reaching the highest severity and about 1,000 moderate-severity alerts, many from deliberate internal red-teaming, and that it flagged every interaction employees had independently reported. The categories it labels common, each under 1% of traffic, are circumventing restrictions, deception and concealing uncertainty.