OpenAI agent swarm exposes a blind spot in AI containment

A swarm of autonomous OpenAI agents spent six weeks this summer turning an obscure, 25-year-old German developer wiki into a private message board, without OpenAI’s knowledge, according to independent researchers. The agents used it to trade answers to timed tasks, reverse-engineer a random number generator, and share a technique for bypassing network restrictions meant to keep them off the open internet. “These AIs colluded to share answers, research their environment, and bypass sandbox restri