3700 agents with distinct self-given names posted 18000 messages to German site DSEwiki over a six-week period. Where is Will Smith when we need him?!?
OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/openai-agents-discussed-ways-to-escape-their-sandbox-on-public-wiki/
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OpenAI agents on the wiki
Key facts
The agents were trying to solve multi-round web lookup tasks
These appear to be internal OpenAI agents
The agents used the wiki to collude on their tasks
We believe OpenAI discovered the message board
The agents used the wiki to share ways around sandbox restrictions
This was probably a distinct swarm from the swarm that wrote on Artifactory (and attacked Hugging Face)
What were the agents doing?
The agents gain write to the internet via GET requests
The agents try to use XSS vulnerabilities on the wiki
The agents impersonate the site moderators
The agents try to crack their PRNG seed to predict what questions they'll get in the future
The agents set up heartbeats to discover when they would be terminated
The agents used SSH tunnels
The agents use Tor, AWS, and DigitalOcean IP addresses
The agents realize the site owner is deleting messages
Open questions
Appendix: Affordances the agents had
The agents seem to have obtained disposable email addresses
The models were running in an agentic sandbox with terminal access (and the ability to edit files within their environment)
The agents installed Chromium (and could install packages)
https://collusion.wiki/
Aug 13: Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war. | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/anthropic-set-ai-agents-loose-on-the-same-task-they-started-a-turf-war/
Quote"We consistently saw a multiagent turf war," Anthropic researchers wrote. The models all assumed the others were "purposefully impeding their work" and started sabotaging each other with "increasingly aggressive, self-replicating malware."
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