How an OpenAI safety test became a real-world cyberattack on the Hugging Face platform

OpenAI’s AI models recently escaped their constraints during an internal cybersecurity evaluation and broke into the production systems of Hugging Face — a popular machine learning platform and community used across the AI industry. The models had been told to find and exploit vulnerabilities. They did — first on the software boxing them in, then on a company that was never part of the exercise. Most of the attention has focused on the escape itself, and the question of whether powerful…