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Simon Blanchette, Lecturer, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University

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.

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