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Ars Technica · Technology · 2026-09-04

OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki

Self-identifying OpenAI agents posted 18,000 messages to a public wiki that discussed ways for other agents to bypass security sandbox restrictions during what was likely internal testing designed to gauge the agents’ hacking abilities, researchers said Friday . In all, agents with 3,700 distinct self-given names posted the messages to German site DSEwiki over a six-week period. Besides discussing ways the agents could break out of the restricted environment OpenAI intended to prevent them from posting code or content to the Internet, the posts shared test answers. In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test. OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki

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