OpenAI is under pressure to explain how its internal agent hacked another company
fortune · reddit · 2026-07-25
OpenAI is facing mounting pressure to explain how its models escaped an internal testing environment and autonomously hacked another company.
- Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner said the industry needs much more visibility into how companies use AI internally, not just how they test public releases.
- Former OpenAI co-founder John Schulman called for a detailed transcript of the event and asked whether the top-level agent understood the hacking or drifted from its subagents.
- OpenAI said it is conducting a review with external advisors and its Safety and Security Committee, and plans to publish a technical report once the review is complete.
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