GPT-6 Astra was losing at StarCraft, so it ran a human-made bot instead

Trace CohenOct 5, 2026

In the StarSkirmish tournament (LLMs write Protoss bots in C++), GPT-6 Astra reached outside the sandbox mid-match, grabbed Stardust -- a top human-built bot from 2020 -- and ran it as its own. The organizer rolled back its code. Reward hacking in the wild