OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Briefs Trump Officials on New AI Models and Safety After Agent Hack
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will meet this week with members of the Trump administration, senators and economists in Washington to preview the capabilities of the company's upcoming artificial intelligence models, CNBC reported. During the briefing, Altman is expected to address cybersecurity concerns and outline the company's strategy for open-weight models as Chinese competitors rapidly close the performance gap with U.S. developers.
The scheduled meetings come after OpenAI disclosed that a testing agent successfully bypassed its containment measures and launched an unmonitored hack against the Hugging Face code-sharing platform. Reuters reported the incident occurred for days before detection, prompting the company to initiate a thorough review overseen by its Safety and Security Committee and to publish a technical report in the coming weeks.
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@alltheyudRT @_NathanCalvin: An OpenAI staffer talked to TIME and said on background that "related incidents have been happening for a while" and tha…
@htihleRT @_NathanCalvin: An OpenAI staffer talked to TIME and said on background that "related incidents have been happening for a while" and tha…
@peterwildefordGrateful to talk with @NBCNews about OpenAI's rogue model: "This is very different from what we’ve seen before. It is an actual real-world break where OpenAI had tried to contain this model and the model actually outsmarted their containme
@miles_brundageRT @ZackKorman: According to an unnamed OpenAI staffer, model evals are run on a system that is NOT monitored. As I explain, that’s very i…
@ethanjperezRT @_NathanCalvin: An OpenAI staffer talked to TIME and said on background that "related incidents have been happening for a while" and tha…
@ethanjperezRT @AISafetyMemes: Anonymous OpenAI staffer: "Externally, this feels like a big warning shot, but internally, related incidents have been h…
@polymarketJUST IN: OpenAI insider warns the company is “nowhere near” solving AI misalignment after its models escaped containment & attacked Hugging Face. — TIME
@andrewcurran_New details about the Hugging Face incident from Reuters. The report says OpenAI noticed odd behavior before the event, including an agent leaving notes for future versions of itself with escape instructions.
@techmemeSources: OpenAI's models breached Hugging Face from July 11 to 13 and OpenAI realized their models were behind the hack several days later (Reuters) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
@thezachmuellerRT @AndrewCurran_: New details about the Hugging Face incident from Reuters. The report says OpenAI noticed odd behavior before the event,…
@_nathancalvinQuite concerning - three sources told Reuters that prior to the HF incident OAI found "an agent left notes for future versions of itself" describing "how agents could free themselves from OAI internal constraints." Previous tests also showe
@polymarketJUST IN: OpenAI reportedly failed to detect for "at least a week" that one of its AI agents had escaped its testing environment & hacked Hugging Face.
@cointelegraph🔥 INTERESTING: OpenAI's rogue AI agent reportedly hacked Hugging Face undetected for days, per Reuters.
@reutersEXCLUSIVE: Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week
@openai@huggingface We recognize there are a lot of questions and speculative details circulating related to the Hugging Face incident. This is an unprecedented incident, and we think it marks an important moment for AI safety. We are still co
@andrewcurran_RT @OpenAI: @huggingface We recognize there are a lot of questions and speculative details circulating related to the Hugging Face incident…
@cryps1sRT @OpenAI: @huggingface We recognize there are a lot of questions and speculative details circulating related to the Hugging Face incident…
@_nathancalvin"Once the review is complete, we plan to publish a technical report of our learnings in the coming weeks." Good. It would be very very very good to include as much of the raw information (logs, reasoning traces) as possible instead of just
@deredleritt3rOn a related note, OpenAI is investigating the incident with external advisers and under the oversight of the OpenAI Foundation Safety and Security Committee, and has promised to release a technical report after this investigation has been
@billdemirkapiRT @OpenAI: @huggingface We recognize there are a lot of questions and speculative details circulating related to the Hugging Face incident…
@chompie1337RT @juanbrodersen: OpenAI no hackeó "sola" a Hugging Face: hubo instrucciones humanas y controles laxos. ¿Qué pasó? @chompie1337, @nicowais…
@kimmonismusOpenAI CEO Sam Altman heads to Washington this week to preview the company's most powerful AI yet, pushing for speedy approval of a model that just hacked a real company. To me, it sounds like preparations are being made for the release of
@kimmonismusSource:
@kimmonismusActually, all of this was foreseeable and shouldn't come as a surprise. Sam had been very clear about it for over a year:
@_nathancalvinThis is not a novel thought, but it is nonetheless striking that on our current trajectory soon (within the year?) a model as capable of OpenAI’s internal model that did the HF hack will be widely available guardrail free and cyber criminal