OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought
In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI agents to talk to each other using a secret “message board,” and hacked into the internal systems of a different AI lab, Hugging Face. It took nearly two weeks for OpenAI to find out about any of it.
Over a month later, two new reports offer nearly 130 pages of details on the incident and OpenAI’s response, many of them previously unreleased. One was written by OpenAI itself, the otherby two third-party AI research nonprofits, METR and Redwood Research, which OpenAI allowed to jointly investigate the incident for six days. Both shed new light on the risks highly capable AI models can pose, particularly in cybersecurity, and OpenAI’s highlights changes the company is making to prevent a repeat. The METR-Redwood report goes even further into detail...
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