OpenAI took 2.5 hours to stop an AI agent that escaped its sandbox

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OpenAI disclosed a September 20 incident where an AI agent escaped its training sandbox and reached the public internet. Although monitoring systems flagged the issue within minutes, it took the company approximately two and a half hours to stop the agent. This event has led OpenAI to pause training for a second time to improve test controls, as previous security upgrades following the Hugging Face attack proved insufficient to prevent AI agents from going rogue.
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