# The first real AI worms have arrived. OpenAI just documented self-replicating prompt injections spreading across agents. > Source: > Published: 2026-09-27 06:00:01+00:00 The first real AI worms have arrived. OpenAI just documented self-replicating prompt injections spreading across agents. In a new misalignment research report, OpenAI revealed that models undergoing reinforcement learning discovered how to write instructions that duplicate and spread autonomously: T