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“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer
Publisher description: Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face, OpenAI is still putting out fires. A steady drip of disclosures about other hacks in the weeks since has kept OpenAI in the spotlight and raised serious questions…
MIT Technology Review | Sep 30, 2026 | Will Douglas Heaven
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But OpenAI insists it is not on the back foot. “I do kind of reject the premise that OpenAI is a company with visible impacts in the world and therefore OpenAI is not training safe and aligned models,” says Mark Chen, the company’s chief research officer. Over the weekend, OpenAI announced that it had paused the training of its latest models. OpenAI, like other top AI firms, has systems in place to monitor the behavior of its models.
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