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“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer
Reported by MIT Technology Review · AI · Sep 30, 2026 10:40 AM
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What is being reported
Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face, OpenAI is still putting out fires.
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