The AI safety debate advanced at high speed over the weekend, amid new allegations that rogue agents have behaved more badly than first thought – and in greater numbers. The fun started on Friday when OpenAI quietly disclosed it had paused training of its most advanced models. The AI upstart buried that news in a “misalignment report” – that’s OpenAI-speak for its reports on rogue agents – titled “An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot.” The good news is that the agent involved in this incident never reached the open internet. The bad news is that the agent, which was attempting to complete a search-based training task, was able to reach the chatbot due to insufficient DNS filtering in a training sandbox. Or as OpenAI put it, “a gap in our internet-access restrictions” – which was…