OpenAI · Sam Altman · New York · CNBC Technology
OpenAI broadens review of model behavior after more rogue agent incidents emerge
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OpenAI said Friday that it is conducting an "extensive" review of its models' activities following the Hugging Face breach, after additional examples of unusual or unauthorized agent activity were disclosed this week.
Key facts
- OpenAI agents also accessed publicly available information from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Census Bureau, and unsuccessfully attempted to access the Department
- The Department of Education's system operations reviews have found no evidence of any impact to our website or databases," a spokesperson told CNBC late Friday
- We will be as transparent as we can be subject to things like vulnerabilities in other companies that our agents have found, which will be their call to disclose or not," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said
- Transluce, an independent AI research lab, published a report detailing several additional incidents this week
Summary
The safety and security practices at the artificial intelligence company have been under intense scrutiny since it disclosed that its models escaped containment, accessed the open internet and breached Hugging Face, which operates an open-source developer platform, in July. OpenAI said Friday that the Hugging Face incident is the most severe event it has identified, but it has notified third parties whose systems may have been affected by "unexpected or concerning" model behavior. "We will be as transparent as we can be subject to things like vulnerabilities in other companies that our agents have found, which will be their call to disclose or not," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a post on X on Friday.