Altman says models now find hardware-level bugs, patching era ending
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says models can now discover bugs beyond conventional hacker threat models, including hardware-level flaws, and argues defenses must shift from patching to using frontier models as a new protective shield.
2026-10-25 ~ 2026-10-25 · 2 related posts
- Episode 1: Altman: OpenAI's Strongest Internal Model Too Powerful to Release; Not All Bugs Can Be Patched(2026-10-23, 18 posts)
- Episode 2: Security community splits over AI-driven vulnerability discovery(2026-10-23, 4 posts)
- Episode 3: OpenAI insiders claim AI-exploitable unfixable hardware flaws exist(2026-10-24, 3 posts)
- Episode 4: Altman says models now find hardware-level bugs, patching era ending(2026-10-25, 2 posts)
- Sam Altman: 'I no longer think we're gonna be able to just patch all the bugs' — GarrisonLovely · 2026-10-25
- Sam Altman: models find 'hardware-level' bugs, and patching them all may be impossible — nptacek · 2026-10-25