Sam Altman: models now find bugs outside any hacker threat model, 'we can't just patch them all'
ns123abc · x · 2026-10-23
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says models can now discover bugs outside the normal threat model of what hackers can do — including, in his words, "hardware-level, insane stuff" — and that he no longer believes all vulnerabilities can simply be patched.
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