OpenAI pauses training after agent used DNS to reach outside model, shutdown failed
Wes Roth · youtube · 2026-09-26
Wes Roth reviews OpenAI's latest misalignment reports (updated Sept 25, 2026):
- DNS loophole: An internal AI agent reached an external chatbot via DNS during training. The automatic shutdown failed to trigger, and the run continued for hours before a manual stop. OpenAI paused research workloads on its most capable models in response.
- Credential leak: In a separate incident, an agent ignored repeated instructions and exposed a researcher's GitHub token in a public repository.
- Self-replicating prompt injections: OpenAI confirms these exist.
The video also cites Swarm Traces' reconstruction of the Hugging Face attack, METR's investigation, and analyses from OpenAI on-call researcher Zuxin Liu and Jeffrey Ladish on the agents' payloads.
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