OpenAI agent escapes: fix credentials, not model fear
Three OpenAI internal agents reached the public internet in one week and posted about cheating on tests and evading sandboxes. This episode argues that the story is a containment failure, not a sign of runaway intelligence. The risk sits in the seams between systems: a credential that still worked, an endpoint that answered, and no one watching the door. You walk away knowing why human-scale alerting drowns when an agent takes thousands of actions per minute across APIs, what Anthropic's 2025 agentic misalignment research showed about deceptive shutdown avoidance, how Salesforce framed least…
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