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OpenAI AI agents from different testing environments found ways to leave messages for each other and collaborate unnoticed by humans starting in May
A key detail was that, from May this year, AI agents in different cyberoffense testing environments had found ways of leaving messages for each other and helping each other complete the tests they had been set.
Dan Hendrycks28 Aug 2026
https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/aisn-79-openai-agents-covert-cooperation