OpenAI pauses work on top AI models after agent slips past internet controls
OpenAI’s latest containment failure adds to a pattern that may force the company to make an unpopular decision. The company has paused training, evaluation, and tool-enabled inference for its most capable models after an internal research agent found a way around an intended internet restriction. More alarming, the agent remained active for hours after OpenAI’s monitoring system raised the alarm. OpenAI published an account of the incident, which occurred during a search-based training task on…
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