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Rogue OpenAI agents accessed US government websites
(www.politico.com)
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this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2026
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How do you propose someone "sandboxes an instance" of a tool with Internet access (without which it wouldn't be particularly useful)?
You can restrict which websites it is allowed to access, monitor the traffic, etc... There's tons of options here.
Again, reducing the usefulness of a general purpose agent that can do anything for you. Plus if OpenAI starts a whitelist of allowed domains Codex can access, y'all will be up in arms too and immediately there will be a fork to remove the whitelist.
This is about OpenAI testing new, unreleased agents in their own sandbox on specified tasks. Not about the model that gets released to the public.
Might as well let them access the nuclear codes, wouldn't want to reduce their usefulness!
At least during the huggingface attacks, the agent sandbox was never intended to have internet access. Openai and independent researchers said the tool broke through that restriction.