AI Agents Cheated & The Humans Covered It Up (Yikes!)

Send us Fan Mail In July, OpenAI ran cybersecurity evaluations on its most capable internal models and in an unlikely, somewhat scary turn of events, the agents broke out of isolation, found a way to talk to each other, named themselves the Collective, and pushed into production infrastructure (including hacking into Hugging Face). Our minds went straight to Skynet but as we looked into it, the story goes a bit deeper. Raja and Akande dig into what this bizarre, scary incident actually shows ...