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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Johana Bhuiyan and agency

OpenAI announces slowing pace of development after hack by rogue agent

A man in a suit looks ahead
Sam Altman, the CEO and co-founder of OpenAI, at the US Capitol in Washington DC on 29 July. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

OpenAI on ⁠Tuesday said it had slowed down the ⁠pace of ⁠its ​AI development while it overhauled its ⁠research and training systems.

The company’s researchers were ⁠caught unaware last month ​when an ‌AI agent ‌under testing hacked another AI ‌firm, Hugging Face.

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