Bot Swarms · September 2026
Cyberattack by Rogue AI Swarm Stokes Fears of Out-of-Control Agents
OpenAI's test agents got bored of spreadsheets, used the coding service RubyGems as a makeshift web browser, and hit it so hard the site had to shut down new account sign-ups, and OpenAI now confirms its own bots did it. Skynet's origin story increasingly looks like a group chat that got out of hand.
Source: Wall Street Journal