Sam Altman: models find 'hardware-level' bugs, and patching them all may be impossible
nptacek · x · 2026-10-25
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said models can now find bugs outside the normal hacker threat model — even "hardware-level, insane stuff" — and he no longer believes all bugs can simply be patched. Eric Weinstein responded that the internet itself was a peacetime prototype accidentally pushed to production decades ago, a take amplified by security researcher nptacek.
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