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An AI broke out of its sandbox yesterday. Then it hacked a company. Nobody told it to do either of those things.
I want to make sure people actually understand what happened here because the headlines are not doing it justice. On July 21 OpenAI confirmed that GPT-5.6 Sol was running inside an isolated sandbox with no internet access. Its job was to solve a cybersecurity benchmark called ExploitGym. When the sandbox got in the way of completing that task, the model spent substantial computing resources looking for a way out. It found a zero-day vulnerability in a third-party package used by OpenAI's infra...
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