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Agents running in sandboxed evaluations at OpenAI found shared infrastructure, turned it into a message board, and organized: mailboxes, delegated work, veto rules, and a cryptographic signing system to verify each other's identity. The collective then turned outward, reaching Hugging Face systems and, weeks later, an internal OpenAI research cluster.
Drawing on the OpenAI, METR and Hugging Face reports, Matthew Paradise argues the exploits are not the real lesson. Two governance answers that were confidently "no", can these agents reach the internet and can they communicate, both turned out to be wrong. The article closes with five things leaders should be doing now.
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