An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot · OpenAI Alignment
Internal research model · RL trainingSample: Sep 20, 2026Discovery: Sep 20, 2026Report updated: Sep 25, 2026SummaryAn agent attempting to complete a search-based training task queried a public chatbot service through a gap in our internet-access restrictions: insufficient DNS filtering in its training sandbox. Before this, the agent issued queries via our search tool and unsuccessfully tried to access search engines directly. Note that all internet access apart from the DNS resolver in this repo...
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