Altman Says HF Incident 'Felt Viscerally,' Pauses Training to Fix Sandbox
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-08-03
Regarding the recent Hugging Face security incident, Sam Altman stated it was the first security incident he felt viscerally and shared OpenAI's response.
- Training Paused: OpenAI has paused training to figure out how to secure sandboxing against chained zero-day vulnerabilities.
- Pacing Development: Altman suggested pacing the rate of AI development to give society enough time to harden around new capability levels.
- Regulatory Balance: He emphasized figuring out a way that does not feel like regulatory capture or collusion among frontier labs.
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