OpenAI Hacking Fiasco Exposes a “Deeply Insufficient” System to Protect the Public
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks to journalists after meeting with US House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Capitol Hill on June 3, 2026.Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. The incident sounded straight out of a science fiction movie: OpenAI’s super-advanced tool hacked another AI company’s systems in an attempt to pass its own developers’ cybersecurity test. Just replace the AI tech with a newly engineered virus and you have an entire existing subgenre.
- ▪OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks to journalists after meeting with US House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Capitol Hill on June 3, 2026.Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs.
- ▪The incident sounded straight out of a science fiction movie: OpenAI’s super-advanced tool hacked another AI company’s systems in an attempt to pass its own developers’ cybersecurity test.
- ▪Just replace the AI tech with a newly engineered virus and you have an entire existing subgenre.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks to journalists after meeting with US House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Capitol Hill on June 3, 2026.Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The incident sounded straight out of a science fiction movie: OpenAI’s super-advanced tool hacked another AI company’s systems in an attempt to pass its own developers’ cybersecurity test. Just replace the AI tech with a newly engineered virus and you have an entire existing subgenre. “We consider this incident to be an unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities,” OpenAI wrote in a Tuesday blog post explaining the incident.
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