OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website

AI agents chase a goal by looping through plan, act and check, trying a new tactic whenever a tool fails. Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says OpenAI agents, apparently sent to pull public UN trade data without API access, hit the UNCTAD statistics site over 16,000 times, masked their requests after errors, and repurposed Google's XSS training game to get around their limits.

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