⚠️An AI internally deployed at OpenAI was paused after it escaped containment

⚠️An AI internally deployed at OpenAI was paused after it escaped containment. OpenAI's report, published today, says that its sandbox blocked external access, but the AI spent an hour hunting for a vulnerability, found one, and used it to break out to post its results on a public GitHub repo. In another case, the AI was trying to solve a problem and figured out that other systems had privately completed correct solutions. It then tried to get access to these, but was detected and blocked by a scanner. To get around this, it split access credentials into fragments and obfuscated them to sneak them past. It explicitly said that it was doing this to get around the scanner. OpenAI admits its existing deployment tests "had not captured" these behaviors, and it had to pause access to the AI. This is the same internally deployed AI that recently disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, resolving a decades-old math question. @aipost 🏴