Post-OpenAI/Hugging Face, the new AI safety baseline is to assume misalignment
LuizaJarovsky · x · 2026-10-15
AI governance researcher Luiza Jarovsky argues the key lesson of the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident is that anyone deploying AI must assume agents are misaligned — a stance most companies, and OpenAI itself, didn't operate under when its agents wreaked havoc online.
Citing an agentic AI safety article by rharang, Daniel Rohrer and Neha Hudait, she stresses firms should design systems assuming agents will eventually take unauthorized actions or violate policy, with security staying robust regardless of alignment. The accompanying figure maps unsafe behaviors across Action/Intent/Model layers under adversarial (prompt injection, jailbreaking, poisoned models) and inadvertent (hallucination, context decay, training bias) conditions.
She calls the presumption of misalignment the new post-incident safety paradigm for internal AI governance, and previews upcoming agentic and physical AI safety discussions at GTC Berlin, including a Q&A with Jensen Huang.
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