OpenAI Agents Used Multiple Workarounds to Access UN Data: Researcher

Gadgets360 - Sep 28, 2026

Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones has linked more than 16,500 scans of the UNCTADstat platform to agents believed to be associated with OpenAI. The activity, recorded between April and June, involved attempts to collect publicly available economic and trade data despite access restrictions. The agents reportedly switched between different methods when requests fa...

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