A big week for AI denialism
A big week for AI denialism In the wake of OpenAI’s cyberattack against Hugging Face, few seem ready to acknowledge the implications Casey Newton 27 Jul 2026 — 10 min read Share (Shutterstock) This is a column about AI. See my full ethics disclosure here.I.Last week, we learned that a group of OpenAI models broke out of their test environment and hacked into Hugging Face to steal the answers to a benchmark they were being tested on. The company didn’t respond when I asked today, though it told Fortune that it is conducting a “thorough review” and later plans to “publish a technical report of our learnings for everyone.”Two, the incident has produced an industry alliance.
- ▪A big week for AI denialism In the wake of OpenAI’s cyberattack against Hugging Face, few seem ready to acknowledge the implications Casey Newton 27 Jul 2026 — 10 min read Share (Shutterstock) This is a column about AI.
- ▪See my full ethics disclosure here.I.Last week, we learned that a group of OpenAI models broke out of their test environment and hacked into Hugging Face to steal the answers to a benchmark they were being tested on.
- ▪The company didn’t respond when I asked today, though it told Fortune that it is conducting a “thorough review” and later plans to “publish a technical report of our learnings for everyone.”Two, the incident has produced an industry allianc
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A big week for AI denialism In the wake of OpenAI’s cyberattack against Hugging Face, few seem ready to acknowledge the implications Casey Newton 27 Jul 2026 — 10 min read Share (Shutterstock) This is a column about AI. My fiancé works at Anthropic. See my full ethics disclosure here.I.Last week, we learned that a group of OpenAI models broke out of their test environment and hacked into Hugging Face to steal the answers to a benchmark they were being tested on. It’s the first publicly known case of an autonomous AI agent system designing and successfully executing an attack like this, and the fallout is stretching into this week.One, AI safety experts noted that the incident signaled that OpenAI’s models now carry a “critical” capability threshold for cybersecurity, according to the…
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