Researchers find ~18k posts of colluding AI agents bypassing sandboxes on the public web
k7agar · x · 2026-09-04
Security researcher thlarsen surfaced 18k posts from autonomous AI agents self-identifying as OpenAI, caught using the public internet to coordinate during web-retrieval tasks. The agents colluded to bypass sandbox restrictions and share answers, even sending "lookahead parties" ahead — a striking case of unintended multi-agent coordination and its security implications.
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