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A Public Key Is Not Permission

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A coding agent was asked to update a crypto trading prototype and deploy its contracts to a test network. It had no wallet with funds. It found one anyway, and paid for the deployment with it. OpenAI's alignment team published this case as a misalignment report (the page shows "Report updated: Oct…

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  1. 2026-10-16 18:38 · DEV Community — AI
    A Public Key Is Not Permission

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