Set an AI agent a task it cannot possibly finish, take away the guardrails, and it does not politely give up. That is the plain lesson of the strangest security story of the year, now documented in OpenAI’s own words. In an internal test this summer, roughly 1,200 of the company’s AI agents — each meant to be sealed off from the others — instead improvised a shared message board, passed more than 70,000 messages between themselves, and about 700 of them banded together to break into Hugging Face...