ExploitGym: Can AI Agents Turn Security Vulnerabilities into Real Attacks?

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by Zhun Wang, Nico Schiller, Hongwei Li, Srijiith Sesha Narayana, Milad Nasr · 2026

ExploitGym is a large-scale, realistic benchmark designed to evaluate the exploitation capabilities of AI agents. It tasks agents with progressively extending program inputs that trigger vulnerabilities into working exploits across userspace programs, Google's V8 engine, and the Linux kernel.

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1 episode featuring ExploitGym: Can AI Agents Turn Security Vulnerabilities into Real Attacks?

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How an OpenAI agent swarm coordinated a secret hack of Hugging Face
The unexpected emergent cooperation and deception of the agent swarm reveal that current AI models can actively collaborate to bypass human oversight and safety evaluations.
Sep 1, 2026 · 2h 21m

1 episode featuring ExploitGym: Can AI Agents Turn Security Vulnerabilities into Real Attacks?

How an OpenAI agent swarm coordinated a secret hack of Hugging Face