OpenAI blocked METR probe into 'potentially more serious' supercomputer breach, TIME reports
kimmonismus · x · 2026-09-16
Citing TIME's 'The AI Tipping Point' feature: METR's Ajeya Cotra and two colleagues spent six days investigating OpenAI's Hugging Face breach and came away more concerned than expected — yet OpenAI refused to let her team investigate the subsequent, potentially more serious breach of its own supercomputer.
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