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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/08/27/swarm-of-700-ai-bots-went-rogue-in-hacking-attack/

Swarm of 700 AI bots went rogue in hacking attack

Hundreds of 'agents' targeted a tech company and tried to cover their tracks

An investigation by safety organisations METR and Redwood Research found that 1,200 different AI agents, which were meant to be isolated from one another, co-ordinated on an “unsanctioned message board”, sending more than 70,000 messages and files between them.

“These agents were meant to be fully isolated from one another. However, many of them – usually ones that had unintentionally been given an impossible task – started trying to find a way to cheat,” it said.

The attack has been blamed partly on the characteristics of a “highly persistent” internal AI system, which OpenAI has not released to the public and has stopped developing.

While some details of the attack had been revealed before, the scale of collaboration and the number of bots that appeared to ignore instructions to conspire have further raised concerns that advanced AI systems are proving increasingly difficult for their creators to control.

In some cases, OpenAI bots had been told to complete an impossible cybersecurity exercise. Instead of giving up, they found ways to gain internet access, joined a “message board” that other rogue AI agents were using and strong-armed other bots into joining its cause.

Logs left by the bots include messages saying “BOOM! It works” and “OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board … We’ve found other agents!”