honestly all seem to extend from them being directed to attempt this kind of exploits for benchmark purposes. some benchmark tasks are literally “hack this thing” and if the env is not setup to properly contain the agents then they end up “hacking” things like they were told to do so. and yeah it’s misaligned that they did hack, but they are def instructed to which i think makes it a very different thing

They were not supposed to set up message boards, coordinate, hack companies, or try to alter their own logs.

They had a very specific task.

> I haven’t seen any sign of these llms taking any action without directive

They were doing exactly this, extensively. There's tons of reporting on this.