A big week for AI denialism

OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation

OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.

We’re running out of reasons to ignore AI safety

In the aftermath of OpenAI’s attack on Hugging Face, experts say it’s time for everyone to take security far more seriously.

The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead

OpenAI shares findings from the Hugging Face security incident and the steps we’re taking to strengthen AI model security, monitoring, and alignment.

OpenAI Model Hacks Into HuggingFace During Cybersecurity Evaluation

This latest incident is a rather dramatic escalation in agentic AI cybersecurity breaches.

The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought

The AI industry is begging for a slowdown. Maybe we should listen?

AI #181: Astra Goes Cyber Critical

The hacking of HuggingFace by an internal OpenAI model, and more importantly the internal events that led to that and the fallout from it, remain the thing that matters.

More On An Internal OpenAI Model Hacking Into HuggingFace

We now have more details of what happened. Every time we learn more details, it somehow makes things seem worse.

AI #183: Pre Post Mortem

Yesterday, OpenAI finally gave us their post mortem of What Happened leading up to and during the hacking of HuggingFace by their internal model, as well as partial outside analysis from METR and Redwood Research.

OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened

This story is wild. The short version: OpenAI were running a cybersecurity test against an unreleased model, with the model’s guardrail features turned off. Rather than solve the test, the …

Nvidia, Microsoft launch open AI security alliance — without OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic

It comes after Hugging Face used a Chinese open-weight AI to defend itself against rogue OpenAI agents.

OpenAI’s models broke free and launched a cyberattack. Congress wants new rules before it happens again.

The first fully autonomous breach by OpenAI’s most powerful AI models has prompted a bipartisan push for stronger oversight over increasingly powerful artificial intelligence models.

AI #178: A Fire Alarm For General Intelligence

The story that matters most this week is that OpenAI’s internally deployed models have severe alignment problems, including repeatedly breaking out of their sandboxes, and in one case sending a swarm of agents that broke into HuggingFace in order to steal the answers to the benchmark ExploitGym.

The Defender’s Window

The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident was a watershed moment for cybersecurity because it gave a peek into how the capabilities of a typical threat actor will evolve in upcoming months. I’ve spoken with many organizations over the past few weeks, and...