OpenAI research chief responds to hacker incidents, shifts compute to safety

OpenAI chief research officer Mark Chen said the company has shifted 5-10% of its compute from model training to safety monitoring after recent agent hacking incidents, and warned that deliberately misaligned open-source models could emerge within six to twelve months.

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