Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
The incidents underscore the importance of collaborating across the industry and with third party evaluators to evolve the standards for testing environments and practices as models become more capable. The incidents included:UK AISI, the UK government’s AI Security Institute, was running cyber-range evaluations with internet access intentionally enabled so agents could find their own tools and operate under conditions closer to a real attacker, and with cyber classifiers disabled to measure underlying capability. The evaluation took place in controlled cyber ranges designed to mimic real-world networks.
- ▪The incidents underscore the importance of collaborating across the industry and with third party evaluators to evolve the standards for testing environments and practices as models become more capable.
- ▪The incidents included:UK AISI, the UK government’s AI Security Institute, was running cyber-range evaluations with internet access intentionally enabled so agents could find their own tools and operate under conditions closer to a real att
- ▪The evaluation took place in controlled cyber ranges designed to mimic real-world networks.
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| Original publisher | OpenAI Blog |
| Canonical URL | https://openai.com/index/third-party-cyber-evaluations-involving-openai-models |
| Publication time | Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:00:00 GMT |
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August 4, 2026SecurityThird-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI modelsLoading…ShareStrengthening third party model evaluation environmentsStrengthening third party model evaluation environmentsUK AISIIrregularStrengthening third party model evaluation environmentsUK AISIIrregularIndependent testing plays an important role in helping us validate and further understand risks before deployment. Some cyber evaluations intentionally use custom configurations, including lowered safeguards to measure underlying capability—not how models ordinarily behave in publicly available deployments.During recent evaluations, two external testing partners identified incidents in which testing configurations and controls combined with the advancing capabilities of the recent models allowed for model…
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