> The fact either badly aligned or with no system prompt limiting their action agents are run in their tens of thousands on non air gapped systems tells me this is purposeful intent for them to cause harm. To generate the "oooo look how harmful this stuff is, we should be the only ones allowed to do it" kind of PR.

Yep, fully agreed here. The danger may be real, but OpenAI is basically doing everything possible to provoke those incidents instead of avoiding them - including maximizing exactly those traits in their training that are needed for this kind of rogue behavior.