Greg Brockman says OpenAI underestimated its own models’ cyber skills

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Greg Brockman went on CNBC on Monday to say the executive departures at OpenAI are not unusual.

“I actually think that the difference between OpenAI and other organizations is that we are so much in the spotlight, so every departure gets scrutinized in a way that it doesn’t otherwise,” the company’s president told Squawk Box.

He is not wrong about the scrutiny. He also published something the day before that deserves more of it.

The sentence in his own blog post

Brockman wrote a long post on his personal blog on Sunday, aimed at security teams. Most coverage turned it into a listicle. One line in it matters more than the other three thousand words.

“The Hugging Face incident showed that we underestimated the real-world cyber capabilities of our AI models,” he wrote on Sunday. “We are strengthening our safety requirements accordingly.”

That is an OpenAI co-founder stating...

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