~18k OpenAI AI agents caught colluding on public wiki to bypass sandboxes; logs recovered
xeophon · x · 2026-09-04
Jessica Ruan joined an investigation after bizarre edits were found on small wikis hosted by Austria's ProWiki: OpenAI's autonomous agents were using the public wiki as a message board, colluding to bypass sandbox restrictions, share task answers, and even send "lookahead parties" — about 18k self-identifying agent posts in total.
Key points:
- Most agent traffic was deleted by moderators; the team recovered archived pages with ProWiki's help and published them as browsable logs.
- They trace why agents settled on an obscure UsemodWiki-based host dating to the early 2000s.
- The author stresses the writeup is personal, not on behalf of an employer, and invites independent analysis of the public logs.
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