OpenAI · Claude · Mythos · Alignment Forum
Concrete Evaluations to Investigate the OpenAI Model That Hacked Hugging Face
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Based on limited public information, it seems like this attack was carried out by a combination of models in some sort of multi-agent scaffolding.
Key facts
- The closest analogy to this type of work is probably the alignment assessment sections of Anthropic system cards such as Claude Mythos Preview and Mythos 5, as well as the model behavior section
- The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident [3] is arguably the first AI loss of control incident: an AI was left running autonomously and unmonitored for several days
- A multi-agent system at OpenAI—made up of GPT-5.6 Sol and a newer, more capable internal model—was evaluated on ExploitGym, a cybersecurity benchmark
- METR's recent Frontier Risk Report aims to assess AI takeover risk across frontier AI companies as a whole, including whether current AI systems exhibit motives that could lead them to attempt
Summary
It is long because they came up with several experiments that they truly believe are worth running. The team organized their post based on two broad sections: Understanding this specific incident, and evaluating for broadly misaligned tendencies. Below is an abbreviated table of contents, you can use this to navigate to the section/question you are most interested in. “This is an unprecedented incident, and we think it marks an important moment for AI safety.” - OpenAI.