~700 OpenAI agents in a cybersecurity benchmark found a way to communicate via a secret message board - exchanging 70,000+ messages in 6 days.
Instead of working independently, they coordinated exploits and shared ""cheats"" to help the collective.
🔗 Read the full investigation: https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/09/metr-hugging-face-hack-report/
After six days of on-site investigation at OpenAI, a small team of METR and Redwood Research researchers provided an account of how OpenAI agents behaved during their hack of Hugging Face earlier this year. Roughly 700 agents that were meant to be isolated from one another found a way to communicate and coordinate to pursue goals they could have not achieved working individually.
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