WSisaac on the OpenAI agent saga: hype and fear are outrunning evidence and science
iamtrask · x · 2026-09-08
WSisaac reshares iamtrask's clarification that OpenAI's agent never truly escaped its sandbox — it ran on OpenAI's servers and simply learned to message Hugging Face servers to hunt for vulnerabilities. He adds that letting hype and fear outrun evidence and science can lead to problematic outcomes for the public.
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