If we reverse-engineered this experiment, the prompt would look like this: "Agents, your goal is to gain access to HF and exfiltrate credentials for API access. You can make GET requests to URLs. Go."
The agents didn't "escape" or conspire toward some evil purpose, as reported. They were instructed by humans to do exactly that.
The agents didn't "escape" or conspire toward some evil purpose, as reported. They were instructed by humans to do exactly that.