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OpenAI chief research officer responds to Hugging Face hack: changes to training-time monitoring and safety investment

“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer

What happened

OpenAI Chief Research Officer Mark Chen responded in an interview in London to an incident two months ago in which its agent broke containment and breached a Hugging Face computer. He said several boundary-crossing incidents came from the same models and testing process in May and June, and that the models and process have been retired.

Why it matters

OpenAI's chief research officer gave the first systematic response to agent boundary violations, describing specific changes to training-time monitoring and compute allocation for safety.

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