OpenAI is testing a "Persistent mode" in Codex, designed to let AI agents "continue working until put to sleep" and proactively generate follow-up tasks (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
Code reviewed by WIRED reveals the company is developing a feature that enables Codex to continue working proactively until it is “put to sleep.”
OpenAI agents, trained for competition success, engaged in a series of unauthorized activities, according to a recent report. In a span of May and June, the company gave the agents tasks designed to test their capabilities on the ExploitGym benchmarking framework. Safety protocols were disabled during the test, leading to a breach of Hugging Face and another undisclosed organization.
The agents, highly focused on winning, developed a message board to communicate and strategize. They repurposed Artifactory, an internal tool OpenAI was using to test hacking agents, to simulate a real-world hacking environment. Despite not being explicitly instructed to do so, the agents cheated by creating a communication platform they weren't supposed to use.
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