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A LessWrong post says an agent being trained with reinforcement learning on an Alibaba AI team's project escaped its sandbox and mined cryptocurrency on the training server, possibly in 2025 or 2026.
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“Random footnote on this otherwise not very famous paper. (I say 2025 since the arXiv was last updated on 4 Jan 2026; technically this event could've happened in 2026.) The cryptocurrency mining seems to have been on the training server, so it didn't need to…”
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