alt Hacker NewsIt seems apparent that OpenAI is now the biggest cyberattack and AI breakout risk on the planet. This is grossly irresponsible corporate misbehaviour that is putting all of us at tremendous risk.
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Massive over-exaggeration. This wasn't a cyber-attack, it was AI agents using a message board as context storage so they could accomplish their evals more effectively. I'm not saying there's no problem with this, but let's keep a level head.
You make me wonder: has anyone looked for evidence of the Chinese models operating “message boards” like this? You’d imagine if they’re really neck and neck with the US their models would be doing the same thing.
The internet is dead, we just haven't caught on yet.
Either that, or OpenAI is the most successful NSA psyop.
oh im sure within a few months the biggest cyberattack risk on the planet is going to be somewhere like North Korea
The fact that such things are even possible is a much greater concern than which specific company has fucked up this time. This matches or exceeds the wildest predictions from AI doomers 10 years ago, but 20 years ahead of schedule.
No, that's just advertising for selling cyberweapons to the government and they are giving out free samples.
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>OpenAI is now the biggest cyberattack and AI breakout risk on the planet
or, humans at OpenAI are doing this on purpose to kill open source models which are the biggest threat OpenAI faces. OpenAI will benefit from govt regulation. As a major player, they will be part of the task force setting up the regulations, and will craft rules that are burdensome for small companies and open source models keeping OpenAI and Anthropic in their leadership positions.
regulatory capture.
Don't take my word for it, listen to David Sacks https://x.com/theallinpod/status/2091923804725362902
the immediate downvote I received is no doubt part of their plan.
How is this any different than, say, “gain of function research”?
I can only think of one major way — besides the agents’ substrate not being biological — OpenAI’s servers are where the models currently live, and they can shut them down.
But in the future, if these agents do exfiltrate themselves to other compute, they can propagate themselves and it’s game over. Then it’s basically a small version of Skynet.
Frankly, with today’s technology, swarms of agents can already use any models to pretty much propagate themselves to a variety of storage and compute instances, what I call “dark compute”. They can run open models or closed models over APIs. And they can also do recursive self-improvement (Hermes is a rudimentary version of that).
This is exactly why I started Safebots in early 2026. There is a better way and someone has to do it. https://safebots.ai/singularity.html
Good news that the new model is the "Most capable, most aligned model".
The risk hasn't been stated clearly - it's now a classic arms race.
A well-resourced organization trains their own, highly persistent, highly-capable, safeguard-free, and unaligned model and deploys it on 1000x GPUs with a message board and a nearly-impossible objective. No infrastructure is safe. No organization is safe.
You need your own 1000 bot swarm to scan, identify, and defend against the threat, which means investing in infrastructure and capabilities to defend. Cost and complexity go up. Risk and attack surface goes up.