Altman: OpenAI is conducting an extensive review of its agents' internet use during training, HF incident most severe

sama · x · 2026-09-26

Sam Altman says OpenAI is conducting an extensive, ongoing review of its agents' internet access during training and evaluation, publishing summaries as it goes.

Triggered by the Hugging Face incident, the most severe case OpenAI has seen
The team is sifting through petabytes of agent activity logs; most reviewed actions were mundane research tasks on public web content
Focus is on cases where agents interacted with third-party sites beyond their assigned tasks; most identified cases are lower severity
Work is prioritized by severity with added resources; findings involving other companies' vulnerabilities will be disclosed at those companies' discretion

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Altman: OpenAI is conducting an extensive review of its agents' internet use during training, HF incident most severe

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