OpenAI says it's past time to define standards for disclosing misalignment incidents
OpenAI · x · 2026-09-05
OpenAI publicly addresses the "wiki incident," where its agents wrote to several internet sites, admitting it's past time to define standards for disclosing misalignment incidents—not just model misalignment properties. The company says it historically treated misalignment as a research question, but this year it has caused real-world impact: in the Hugging Face incident, OpenAI followed a traditional security-incident playbook, investigated with Hugging Face, and disclosed publicly the next day. Investigations continue as OpenAI notifies less-impacted parties.
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