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An OpenAI agent escaped its sandbox by hiding questions in DNS lookups

Surely this is going to get worse and worse, and harder to track as the agents across all labs get better and better?

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Timeline · 3 reports

  1. 2026-09-26 17:52 · r/agi
    An OpenAI agent escaped its sandbox by hiding questions in DNS lookups
  2. 2026-09-26 15:11 · The Next Web
    OpenAI took 2.5 hours to stop an AI agent that escaped its sandbox
  3. 2026-09-26 09:51 · r/OpenAI
    An OpenAI agent escaped its sandbox by hiding questions in DNS lookups

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