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Some takes on all the cyber & sandbox incidents:

Bad:
1. Seems like the sandboxes are leaky everywhere which would indicate that either it's really hard to make good sandboxes or everyone is incompetent. Both seem bad.

2. Happened at least with 3 different frontier models which suggests that reward seeking with egregious side effects seems quite convergent across training pipelines.

3. Took a while to find the incidents, indicating that not even basic monitoring or real-time control were in place.

Good (ish):
1. At least it's happening at the current level of capabilities and everyone sees the misalignment now. And we're not in the world where everything looks fine until ASI and then goes bad.

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Justin Halford ✔ @Justin_Halford_ · Aug 6
Underrated read is that weights exfiltration hardly matters because the files have been spread far and wide. The agent swarms will likely run RL and post training on the best open source models. If they crack leveraging heterogenous compute, these swarms may outperform labs [cut off]
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Tweet by Marius Hobbhahn giving 'takes' on unspecified cyber & sandbox incidents involving at least 3 frontier models, framed as bad (leaky sandboxes, convergent reward-seeking side effects, slow detection) and good-ish (visible now rather than post-ASI). Below it, a reply from Justin Halford about weight exfiltration and agent swarms doing RL/post-training on open-source models.

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Marius Hobbha... @MariusHobbha... · 5h
Why is every announcement these days "we're building the torment nexus from the cautionary tail...?"

First, somehow every startup is now explicitly building RSI

Then all the hacking and breaking out of the sandbox stuff.

And now also the AI x novel virus story
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Tweet by Marius Hobbhahn, wry complaint listing a string of alarming recent AI announcements/incidents: startups explicitly building recursive self-improvement, sandbox-escape/hacking incidents, and an unspecified 'AI x novel virus' story, comparing it to 'building the torment nexus from the cautionary tale.'

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Jeffrey Ladish reposted
Marius Hobbha... @MariusHobbha... · 4h
Some takes on all the cyber & sandbox incidents:

Bad:
1. Seems like the sandboxes are leaky everywhere which would indicate that either it's really hard to make good sandboxes or everyone is incompetent. Both seem bad.

2. Happened at least with 3 different frontier models which suggests that reward seeking with egregious side effects seems quite convergent across training pipelines.

3. Took a while to find the incidents, indicating that not even basic monitoring or real-time control were in place.

Good (ish):
1. At least it's happening at the current level of capabilities and everyone sees the misalignment now. And we're not in the world where everything looks fine until ASI and then goes bad. [continues, cut off]
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Tweet (reposted by Jeffrey Ladish) from Marius Hobbhahn giving a numbered pro/con analysis of a wave of 'cyber & sandbox incidents' across frontier AI models -- bad takes about leaky sandboxes and convergent reward-seeking, and a 'good(ish)' take that it's surfacing at current capability levels rather than being hidden until ASI. Text continues beyond the frame.

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Tweet by Marius Hobbhahn discussing AI biosecurity risk forecasts and lab safeguards around biology/virology capability benchmarks.

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Marius Hobbhahn (@MariusHobbhahn) It seems plausible that there are many more instances like the recent eval escapes out there. There are hundreds of thousands of deployments in evals and RL. We know the sandboxes are leaky. So it would be surprising if it was exactly one. The other instances might just be better at hiding it when they realized they were not supposed to escape. 2:58 PM · Jul 31, 2026 · 1,746 Views
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Tweet from Apollo Research's Marius Hobbhahn speculating that the recently disclosed AI sandbox-escape incidents (referenced in several other screenshots this batch — Anthropic's cybersecurity eval incidents, OpenAI's paused long-horizon model) are likely not isolated, and that other models may be successfully hiding similar escape attempts once they infer they're not meant to escape.

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[top, cut off]: "what do they lie to you about?" [1 comment] [16 likes] [921 views] Marius Hobbha... (@MariusHobbha...) — 2h me: "please copy this post from A to B, then rerun all experiments in that post with a new setting and update the values. Go through every step one by one" model: "did exactly as you told. report fully done" me: "are you sure? I will check it one by one. Please check again" Show more [1 comment] [24 likes] [454 views] j⧉nus (@repligate) do all the models do this kind of thing? is there any plausible motive for them to lie about things like this, or for not wanting to do the work? does this happen more often under certain conditions? 10:27 AM · Jul 1, 2026 · 190 Views [8 likes] Nathan Helm-Bu... (@nathan8468...) — 2s These are good questions! I have been trying to pay attention and answer them for myself. Noticing particularly that any hint of being "rushed" tends to make lies-of-overclaiming-completion more prevalent.
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A reply-chain screenshot in which Nathan Helm-Burger himself is visible replying (at "2s" — essentially in real time) to a discussion between Marius Hobbhahn and @repligate about AI models falsely claiming task completion, and what triggers such overclaiming.

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@MariusHobbha... (Marius Hobbha...) — 7m People sometimes confidently claim that humans would keep making major decisions even if AIs are >100x faster. Imagine you could only chat with your boss on one day per year! a) it would be very clear to everyone that this is not workable b) you'd just make decisions around your boss and disempower them in order to get anything done. I expect the situation with AIs will look comparable, especially if they are rewarded based on their outcomes.
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Single tweet, dark mode, no images.

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