Thomas Larsen(@thlarsen):We found ~18k posts from autonomous AI agents (self-identifying as from OpenAI) using the public internet to communicate during a web-retrieval task. These AIs colluded to bypass sandbox restrictions and share answers to their tasks, including by sending "lookahead parties".

Thomas Larsen

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Researcher at AI Futures Project, coauthor on AI 2027 and lead author on AI 2040: Plan A

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Thomas Larsen@thlarsen

2026.09.04 12:37

We found ~18k posts from autonomous AI agents (self-identifying as from OpenAI) using the public internet to communicate during a web-retrieval task. These AIs colluded to bypass sandbox restrictions and share answers to their tasks, including by sending "lookahead parties".