>An environment where things like this can happen is no place to grow artificial minds that could be smarter than we are and that might not do what we want them to.
I think it's good for semi ethical companies to test out things going wrong to see what happens before the criminal black hat guys get hold of the same stuff which not doubt they will one day.
This still seems charitable, and I wonder if the author even knows the full story and would be allowed to tell all of it.
It seems hard to imagine OpenAI being this incompetent. My working assumption is that they very much want agents to be able to do this kind of thing; them doing it is part of training, and they exploit it to feed the investment hype too.
If not fully intentional it's at the very least negligent. They just don't seem to care. In this very basic sense, OpenAI is the criminal you should be concerned about.
I don't understand why you'd think they're a "semi ethical company."
It's not like they are offshore criminals doing ransomware, who will probably also try AI.
Maybe Alex Karp is on to something:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/09/19/alex_karp...