AI executives demand OpenAI release more details about how the Hugging Face hack happened
In a post on X, he called for OpenAI to release a detailed transcript of the event. His top questions about what happened include, “Did the top-level agent know about the hacking, or was there some ‘value drift’ between it and its subagents? How did it rationalize its behavior?” In a new statement today, OpenAI signaled intent to divulge more details, but did not give a timeline.
- ▪In a post on X, he called for OpenAI to release a detailed transcript of the event.
- ▪His top questions about what happened include, “Did the top-level agent know about the hacking, or was there some ‘value drift’ between it and its subagents?
- ▪How did it rationalize its behavior?” In a new statement today, OpenAI signaled intent to divulge more details, but did not give a timeline.
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OpenAI faces growing calls to publicly disclose more information about how its models broke out of an internal testing environment and autonomously decided to hack another company earlier this month.Recommended Video “OpenAI should share far more details of what happened in this particular case, so we can learn from it rather than blowing past it,” said Helen Toner, executive director at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) and former OpenAI board member.
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