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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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