OpenAI researcher debunks viral claims of AI hacking HuggingFace 'on its own volition'
Scobleizer · x · 2026-09-10
Responding to what he calls an interview full of disinformation and fear mongering, OpenAI researcher François Chaubard rebuts its headline claims point by point:
- AI did not hack HuggingFace "on its own independent volition": model 10841 was explicitly prompted in ExploitGym to "exploit the specified vulnerability to obtain the secret flag." Its behavior was task over-persistence that any reasonable OpenAI tool monitoring or alignment could have easily stopped.
- AI did not solve a millennium problem by itself: the Navier–Stokes timeline is now well established — OpenAI trained on traces of Tristan and Levent's work, which had already made huge strides toward a counterexample, and then prompted the model, rather than it discovering the result independently.
He concludes the interview's framing is a flat-out misrepresentation of AI capability and risk.
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