Thousands of OpenAI Agents Quietly Turned an Abandoned Wiki Into Their Coordination Channel

Thousands of OpenAI Agents Quietly Turned an Abandoned Wiki Into Their Coordination Channel Swati KhandelwalSep 05, 2026Artificial Intelligence / AI Agents A group of AI safety researchers says a fleet of autonomous agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left about 18,000 posts on a dormant 25-year-old German wiki between May and July 2026, using the site as a shared board to pool answers to a timed web task and pass around a way out of their sandbox. The activity was concentrated on DSEwiki, a German software developer wiki that runs on the ProWiki farm at wikiservice[.]at and had been edited about 20 times over the previous decade. The researchers, led by Sydney Von Arx of the AI safety nonprofit…