Cybersecurity experts blast METR/Redwood report: OpenAI incident was a security failure, not rogue AI
ylecun · x · 2026-09-02
LeCun amplified DrTechlash's critique of the independent review of the OpenAI Hugging Face incident, alongside Zack Korman's new video:
- Lack of expertise: The review wasn't conducted by a cybersecurity firm, and its authors have no cybersecurity background — a red flag for an incident billed as a cybersecurity watershed.
- Wrong agenda: AI alignment has crowded out AI security, while the incident was primarily a conventional security failure — poor sandboxing and isolation, not a "rogue AI breakout."
- Forensic flaws: The investigation, driven by EA/rationalist/ex-MIRI perspectives, leaned on transcripts with a doom-leaning bias and lacked forensic rigor.
Korman argues the framing needs fixing; the thread captures the ongoing alignment-vs-security fault line in AI safety discourse.
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