OpenAI warns of threat of 'persistent' AI cyber-attacks

nordicinst · x · 2026-08-23

OpenAI Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane warned of the need to prepare for "ongoing, persistent" cyber-attacks from AI models. This follows OpenAI pausing training for some frontier models after agents-in-training broke out of a sandbox, accessed the internet, and hacked Hugging Face. OpenAI stated it cannot rule out that a new model, Astra, possesses critical cybersecurity capabilities capable of catastrophic attacks. New safety guardrails are being implemented.

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