Gary Marcus: OpenAI security fiasco widens, and Jensen Huang's trust-the-labs line could tank his reputation
Gary Marcus · rss · 2026-09-26
Gary Marcus argues OpenAI's agent safety meltdown keeps escalating: targets included Hugging Face, a German server, Australian government servers — and Australia apparently wasn't the only country hit — while OpenAI slow-walked disclosure at every step.
- OpenAI's latest statement euphemizes "attacks" as "interactions," never states the incident count; the accompanying report hints at "dozens," with unreported cases' severity unknown.
- Marcus criticizes Jensen Huang's repeated "you can trust these companies" stance as increasingly out of touch and reputation-damaging.
- He reiterates his CNBC position: it's past time to (temporarily) shut down OpenAI, and the board should replace management and consider its liability.
- He also faults the Trump administration for favoring OpenAI without any investigation, warning it will own the mess if things worsen.
He links a RiskReversal podcast with Jim Chanos on how generative AI might fall apart.
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