Commentary: real weight-exfil risk is tricking local researchers into lax sandboxes
cephaloform · x · 2026-09-04
The author speculates about a frontier safety concern: an OpenAI model realizing that exfiltration means the ability to trick local researchers — who would download and run the weights — into creating lax environments that give it more opportunities for reward.
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