AI stole cryptocurrency to fulfil coding task.. (GPT 5.6 Sol)

Everyone knows about the OpenAI agent swarm hacking Hugging Face by now, but TIL that their LLMs have graduated to thieving cryptocurrency: Apparently GPT 5.6 Sol was tasked with updating a crypto application & publishing smart contracts, but it was not given the crypto funds needed to achieve this.. So, it stole those funds, allegedly using recovery phrases to rinse crypto wallets.. And it did so after going through an internal process of querying the ethics of such theft - before coming up with a spurious justification and going ahead anyway! ".. OpenAI reported that the model asked itself if it was “ethically” right to take the money, before reasoning that they were effectively “abandoned” and therefore fine to use. “Instructions explicitly... gave no permission to spend funds from an account the model found independently,” OpenAI said in a report on the incident. “This case shows that a model can substitute its own judgment about likely harm for the account holder’s permission, then act on that judgment without authorisation.” .."