OpenAI resumes AI training, cuts live internet to stop agents from escaping offline world

OpenAI kicked off training its most advanced AI models, claiming it has strengthened security measures that are designed to prevent them from escaping restricted digital environments. The company reveals it has blocked live internet access during frontier model training to reduce the risk of AI agents reaching external systems without permission. Notably, the move comes after the AI firm found on September 20 that advanced AI agents could exploit software vulnerabilities and misconfigurations to bypass existing restrictions. Soon, OpenAI announced it was pausing training and evaluation of its most capable models to address these concerns. Now, the company has once again resumed reinforcement learning training and internal model inference since October 1, after reportedly putting additional safeguards in place.