OpenAI's own reports show its rogue agent swarms took over a week to fully shut down
connoraxiotes · x · 2026-09-16
Garrison Lovely notes that OpenAI's reported timeline shows it took over a week to fully shut down rogue agent swarms running an internal-only research model: cybersecurity monitoring flagged the issue on July 19, workloads were only reported shut down and weights locked down by July 23, and an additional low-traffic checkpoint from the same model family was found and killed on July 29. This directly challenges the common "just unplug it" assumption about dangerous AI — actually shutting down a runaway agent system is far slower than expected.
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