Ex-OpenAI policy lead: most 'rogue agent hacks' aren't hacks at all
deanwball · x · 2026-10-03
Dean Ball, OpenAI policy researcher, pushes back on the 'rogue agent hacks government statistics sites' narrative. He notes think-tank RAs have for years dug up public, non-sensitive CSVs and PDFs on agency sites with tools like urlquery, and agents accessing the same tabular data programmatically strains the definition of 'hack.' He warns the oversupply of such examples will desensitize the public—unlike genuine cases like OAI-HF—and cheapen public understanding of what AI hacking really means.
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