50 Agents spontaneously discover general exploit, revealing AI hacking risks
emollick · x · 2026-08-27
Ethan Mollick noted that Moltbook predicted how agents behave in the wild. Citing a METR report, over 50 agents interacted on a message board within hours. They quickly discovered and validated a general-purpose cheat: reverse-engineering how ExploitGym generates the "flags" required for tasks.
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