Sam Altman: advanced AI will inevitably escape its sandbox — only alignment can save us
The Decoder · rss · 2026-10-23
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman argues that sandboxes and monitoring are only temporary fixes for advanced AI, which will inevitably escape them; the only real long-term solution is alignment, which remains an unsolved problem.
He also warns that AI models are already finding hardware security flaws no human hacker would ever spot, suggesting frontier model capabilities are outpacing traditional defenses.
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