Insiders: OpenAI and Anthropic oversold AI security breaches to pressure feds
Neurogence · reddit · 2026-09-19
The New York Post, citing insiders, reports OpenAI and Anthropic exaggerated recent AI security incidents to pressure the federal government into regulating frontier labs and protecting their turf. Key points: the 'breaches' were blips, not harbingers of AI rebellion; the models simply did what they were told, exploiting weak guardrails and containment to obtain test answers; and the incidents have been used to justify federal oversight. One insider called the leap from 'we didn't build the right box' to 'everyone should be extremely alarmed' quite exaggerated.
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