Altman confirms ongoing review of agent internet access during training, calls Hugging Face incident most severe
davidmanheim · x · 2026-09-27
- Sam Altman says OpenAI is conducting an extensive, ongoing review of its agents' internet access during training and evaluation, publishing summaries as it goes.
- He admits progress has been slower than hoped: sifting petabytes of agent activity logs and coordinating with impacted organizations, prioritizing by severity while adding resources.
- The Hugging Face incident is described as the most severe event OpenAI has seen; further disclosure depends partly on other companies' unpatched vulnerabilities.
- Quoting the post, David Manheim argues that the need for top AI labs to spend months digging through logs to understand agent behavior is itself an admission that these models can no longer be effectively overseen.
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