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A fact from 2026 OpenAI agent cyberattacks appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 August2026(check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Overall: Looks good! Out of the proposed hooks I think I like the first one/ALT0 best, but ALT1 and ALT2 would work as well. I think ALT3 is too dense for the average reader (myself included) to understand. While the image does work I don't think it adds much to the blurb so would be better left out. Chorchapu (talk|edits) 17:09, 3 August 2026 (UTC)Reply
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According to recent reporting from Politico, agents started abusing OpenAIs internal file system to exchange messages and by late May had found a way to access "various websites". By June, models had recorded a way to use a zero-day vulnerability to gain administrative privileges on the system. In early July, OpenAI revoked the credentials, removed the message board and fixed the gaps that were abused. Just days later models found another way to communicate and exchange vulnerabilities and techniques to abuse them.
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Kudos to Closed Limelike Curves for getting this significant topic started and posted to the main page. The fact that AIs are already collaborating and conspiring seems quite alarming and so it behooves us humans to do likewise. Myself I was interested in the recent reports that a genomic AI has been used to create novel viruses which have proved viable in the lab. They are just getting started but the rapid progress has already raised expert concern that "the generation of functional viral genomes has urgent biosafety and biosecurity implications".
For that topic, I started an article Evo (AI) and have nominated it to appear on the main page at ITN, where the discussion currently hangs in the balance. If that doesn't work out, I'll nominate it for DYK as was done here.
Hmm, on the topic, I'm not sure there's enough material in the Evo (AI) article on the new breakthrough you're describing, so it's not clear to me (not an expert in biology) what the scientists did that's new or how important it is. I definitely agree on the importance of increasing AI capabilities in science and technology in general (including biology/virus research), and I'd like to see more STEM content on ITN in general, but the article doesn't explain this breakthrough's importance well enough for me to opine on it.
One possibility is to expand the discussion of the new advances in the article: we can explain what makes them different from past uses of AI in biology, discuss their importance with more citations, and make them more prominent (more space in lead, serial-position effect—important stuff should be either in the first few sections or the very last one). Another is to write an article like "2026 AI mathematics breakthroughs" and try again, using Anthropic's recent progress on the Riemann Hypothesis as the ITN "hook" since that's a discrete breakthrough that's easy to explain the importance of. – Closed Limelike Curves (talk) 18:43, 11 August 2026 (UTC)Reply
