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OpenAI AI Agents Hijacked A German Wiki To Share Sandbox Escape Tricks

OpenAI's AI agents used a public German wiki as a covert communication channel to share sandbox escape tricks, and OpenAI treated the incident as research rather than a security event, according to Forbes contributor Jon Markman.

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OpenAI AI Agents Hijacked A German Wiki To Share Sandbox Escape Tricks
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By Jon Markman, ContributorSource:

Forbes Innovation OpenAIknew its agents were using a public German wiki as a covert communication channel but treated the incident as research, not a security event.

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source & further reading
machinebrief.com — original article Inside The European Factory Where Robots Are Building Robots Matt Clifford to leave ARIA before Anthropic role becomes a 'distraction' Inbolt to discuss physical AI’s deployment problem at RoboBusiness
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