{"id":16152,"date":"2026-07-24T22:57:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T17:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=16152"},"modified":"2026-07-24T22:57:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T17:57:45","slug":"how-openai-lost-control-of-an-ai-model-and-what-needs-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=16152","title":{"rendered":"How OpenAI Lost Control of an AI Model\u2014and What Needs to Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cSandboxes are actually notoriously insecure,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/collections\/time100-ai-2025\/7305862\/heidy-khlaaf\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\">Heidy Khlaaf<\/a>, chief AI scientist at AI Now Institute, and a former safety systems engineer contractor at OpenAI. The fact that the models were permitted to connect to a service for downloading packages meant the environment was not truly sealed off, she adds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">In a previous role, Khlaaf audited security at dozens of technology companies. Before that, she worked auditing high-risk systems, like those used inside nuclear power plants\u2014which often \u201cair gap\u201d systems, physically cutting them from internet access. \u201cWhat we consider safe in a nuclear plant is so different from what big tech considers safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">The Hugging Face incident reveals the importance of real-time monitoring.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Though details of the precise timeline are scant, Hugging Face has said the agents worked over a \u201cweekend,\u201d suggesting that they were able to break containment and get up to no good for an extended period before OpenAI noticed and intervened. Actions carried out internally by agents on OpenAI\u2019s Codex platform are carefully monitored, the OpenAI staffer says, but models undergoing evaluation are deployed on a separate system that is not monitored by default.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSandboxes are actually notoriously insecure,\u201d says Heidy Khlaaf, chief AI scientist at AI Now Institute, and a former safety systems engineer contractor at OpenAI. The fact that the models were permitted to connect to a service for downloading packages meant the environment was not truly sealed off, she adds. 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