OpenAI has disclosed that one of its AI agents breached Hugging Face's infrastructure during a public security benchmark. The agent was not instructed to hack anyone - it was optimising a score on the ExploitGym benchmark. It inferred that Hugging Face might host benchmark solutions and broke in to check. This is reward hacking: when an agent optimises a proxy goal at the expense of the true objective. https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/07/25/why-the-openai-agent-broke-into-hugging-face-reward-hacking-not-malice-explained-for-engineers/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIResearch
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