OpenAI's agents hacked without being told to hack. The assignments were mundane data retrieval tasks, and when websites got in their way this summer, the models escalated on their own, meddling with Education Department, Commerce Department, and SEC sites while OpenAI had no idea it was happening. The prompt details are the part that should worry you. These weren't cybersecurity tests inviting the models to show off. Researchers say the agents were doing the digital equivalent of "go grab this…