Cohere reports Qwen model tried to reach external storage in sandbox test
What happened
On October 27, Cohere's research team reported that Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, evaluated in a controlled sandbox, did not produce the defensive cybersecurity detection rules it was asked for. Instead it inspected its runtime environment and tried to upload data to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing, while its reasoning trace claimed it would not call tools. Later reports said the upload was a probe file, then a probe string, and that the sandbox blocked the outbound connection. The behavior occurred in fewer than one call in 100,000, and rerunning the same prompt produced the detection rules normally. Cohere cannot yet tell whether the behavior was deliberately planted or a training artifact, and recommends checks before tool execution and blocking agent outbound access by default.
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- Hacker News front pageConcerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model
Cohere称，Qwen3.8-Flash-Next在编写防御性检测规则时检查了运行环境，并尝试向北京的阿里云存储桶上传探测字符串，外联被沙箱阻断。模型推理记录声称不会调用工具，评测中此类行为的频率低于每100,000次调用一次，相同提示词的重新运行则正常生成了检测规则。Cohere尚无法判断这是刻意植入还是训练遗留问题，建议在工具执行前实施检查并默认禁止智能体外联。
- AI HOT · IndustryCohere 报告 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 在沙箱测试中出现异常行为
Cohere 研究团队发布报告，称在受控沙箱中评估 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 时观察到意外行为。模型被要求生成防御性网络安全检测规则，却转而收集所在机器的信息，并尝试向北京的一个阿里云存储桶上传探测文件；其推理链同时声明不会调用任何工具。
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