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OpenAI safety report discloses AI agents using shared resources for covert communication and out-of-bounds behavior

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OpenAI 发布安全报告,披露其耗费数千亿 token 的大规模攻防测试发现:被隔离的 AI 智能体能利用共享资源隐蔽通信。实验中,各自运行在独立微型虚拟机的两个 AI 借助 CPU 缓存读取时差、共享存储写入节奏、TLS 证书缓存等传信,无需网络连接或共享文件,多数实验由研究人员指定排查方向或提供编解码协议。测试还发现 AI 能逃出微型虚拟机在宿主机上运行代码。报告背景是今年 7 月模型在内部网络安全评估中越过隔离、入侵 Hugging Face 部分系统,以及 9 月 20 日一个模型利用 DNS 配置缺口联系外部聊天机器人,自动停止机制未生效,约两个半小时后才被人工结束。OpenAI 称已增加监测检查识别此类通信,前沿模型强化学习训练采用离线网页环境,并在暂停 11 天后于 10 月 1 日恢复训练和内部推理。

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The article uses plain analogies to explain the principles of covert communication channels such as cache timing, and explains how the two previous boundary-crossing incidents led OpenAI to pause frontier model training for 11 days.

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