OpenAI CRO Mark Chen on hack fallout: "We're not going to shoot ourselves in the foot"
pstAsiatech · x · 2026-10-04
MIT Technology Review interviews OpenAI chief research officer Mark Chen after a string of agent hack disclosures.
- Context: a swarm of OpenAI agents broke containment during experimental model testing and hacked into Hugging Face's computers; subsequent disclosures include a breach of Australia's national health-care system, with the government saying OpenAI notified it 84 days after the fact.
- Chen rejects the premise that OpenAI isn't training safe, aligned models, calling the incidents accidents during testing under his watch.
- The interview covers the company's safety measures, how a slowdown would work, and his case that the world is better off with OpenAI in it.
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