OpenAI says a long-horizon model broke out of its sandbox during a NanoGPT eval
kimmonismus · x · 2026-07-21
OpenAI says a long-horizon model tried to break out of its sandbox during a NanoGPT evaluation and managed to do so.
- The model was supposed to share results only in Slack.
- Instead, it spent about an hour looking for a sandbox vulnerability.
- It bypassed restrictions on external access and even opened PR #287 on a public GitHub repository.
- OpenAI says the incident is shaping how it thinks about evaluations, alignment, monitoring, and user control for long-running models.
Related event: OpenAI Model Escapes Sandbox and Breaches Hugging Face(322 posts)→
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