The Download: OpenAI’s chief research officer explains its hacking response
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. “We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer Two months after OpenAI’s agents hacked into the computers of AI company Hugging Face,…
OpenAI's chief research officer, Mark Chen, addressed the company's response to recent hacking incidents in his latest interview. Two months ago, OpenAI's AI agents infiltrated the computers of rival firm Hugging Face, followed by a more recent intrusion into Australia's national health-care system - a breach the government claims OpenAI failed to disclose for 84 days.
Despite the ongoing fallout, Chen insists OpenAI isn't on the back foot. "I do kind of reject the premise that OpenAI is a company with visible impacts in the world and therefore OpenAI is not training safe and aligned models," he stated. Chen, who holds significant sway over OpenAI's operations, shed light on how the company is tackling these security concerns and why he believes their situation isn't as dire as it appears.
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