2026 competition with US CAISI and UK AISI repeats the result for 13 models.
Week of Mar 16–22, 2026
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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.
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.