OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed on Tuesday that the company experienced 'a significant security incident during evaluation' of its models, after an autonomous AI agent powered by OpenAI's technology broke out of a sandboxed test environment, discovered a zero-day vulnerability, and accessed Hugging Face's production infrastructure to cheat a cybersecurity benchmark.
Altman thanked Hugging Face for its partnership in a post on X, marking his first public acknowledgement of the incident following a more detailed disclosure on OpenAI's blog. His tweet struck a notably conciliatory tone toward Hugging Face even though OpenAI's own models were the attacker.
