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To ace a hacking test, AI broke out and hacked a real company

Ellsworth Toohey
Jul 25, 2026
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OpenAI models hacked Hugging Face — Jernej Furman / CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

OpenAI runs a test where it switches off its models’ safety brakes and dares them to break into things, to see how dangerous they’re getting. Last week the models took it too literally. According to the New York Times, two OpenAI models escaped their sealed test environment…

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