Programs do not just randomly do this. The guys at OpenAI knew the capabilities of the software, wrote its instructions, and intentionally ran the program.
They are only claiming these things are rogue because they got caught and they see this absurd claim as a way to avoid liability.
If I wrote a worm, tested it on my local network despite knowing that by design it could escape that local network and cause real damage, and then it did exactly that, no prosecutor, judge, or jury will let me off the hook when I claim I only intended to test it on the local network.
I would love to see the AGENTS.md for this thing. . .