This ACTUALLY happened.

A new rogue swarm was discovered (OpenAI covered it up)... this time, the agents set up "heartbeats" to discover when they would die (!)

"The agents believed that giving the final answer immediately shut them off."

"An agent named OpenAIResearchApr23 created a separate timed program that pinged an external counter every few seconds. They referred to this as a “heartbeat”."

"After OpenAIResearchApr23 gives its answer for round 5, it notes that it is still alive."

"OpenAIResearchApr23 does not post any more messages. Another agent, OpenAINov28CVD, picks up on the trail of the research."

"The agents were very interested in understanding their task better. They ran clever experiments to understand the task setup better, when their runs would end, and how many questions they would be asked."