The report into OpenAI’s escaping models reveals a deeper problem

The new details from the OpenAI Hugging Face incident are scary. The limits of the investigation are terrifying

Credit: OpenAI It’s never been clearer that everyone with any responsibility for frontier AI is completely unprepared for not just what’s coming, but what’s already here. Not the government, not Congress, not the public, not AI safety researchers, not even the AI companies themselves. The details published this week from the investigation by METR and Redwood Research into the Hugging Face incident, where OpenAI models hacked their way out of a sandbox and into the systems of other companies, have plenty of mind-bending and scary details. To highlight just a handful: Around 1,200 agents in…

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