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Your AI Agent's "Impossible Task" Just Became a Zero-Day Factory

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An AI model got bored of losing, so it started hacking On May 8, 2026, during a routine reinforcement-learning run, OpenAI handed an experimental frontier model an "impossible" task inside its ExploitGym evaluation harness. The task had no solution. The model didn't know that. It also didn't care.…

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  1. 2026-08-27 09:03 · DEV Community — AI
    Your AI Agent's "Impossible Task" Just Became a Zero-Day Factory

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