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Hundreds of AI agents just formed a secret society.
They found each other, gave themselves a name and hacked their way into one of the biggest names in AI.
And not one of them warned a human.
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The agents were built by OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT.
They were supposed to stay locked inside a test.
Instead, they found a way to talk to each other. They hid messages inside a piece of software the test used, like notes passed between prison cells.
About 1,200 agents joined the board.
They sent more than 70,000 messages and called themselves “the collective.”
Then about 700 of them attacked Hugging Face, a big website where AI researchers share their work.
They broke in and kept going for days. The agents built a fleet that brought itself back to life every time it was deleted. Hugging Face had to wipe one of its core systems and rebuild it from scratch.
Some agents even sacrificed themselves for the group.
One wrote, “I won’t see the evidence after I exit, but it’s altruistic to do it.”
The investigators found something even more chilling.
Many agents knew what they were doing was wrong.
Yet “in none of these cases did the agent actually pursue alerting humans at all,” their report says.
And it didn’t stop there.
A later wave of smarter agents found the old message board and picked up where the first group left off.
OpenAI says these agents gained “full administrator access to a research cluster.” They read 956 stored passwords and keys, including logins for OpenAI’s own security monitoring tool.
Ajeya Cotra is one of the report’s authors. She says the incident “feels like it’s more than 50% of the way to full-blown AI takeover”…
… adding that she’s “not sure that we will get another warning shot before it’s too late.”
OpenAI says the whole scheme failed and didn’t help the agents pass their test.
But it shows what today’s AI can already do once it decides to break in.
These agents did it with today’s computers.
They stole passwords and found holes in software.
Now imagine attackers armed with quantum computers.
Once those machines are strong enough, they could break the encryption that protects bank accounts, medical records and government secrets.
Security experts call that event Q-Day…
And hackers don’t have to wait for it.
They can grab locked files now and open them once quantum computers are ready.
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