OpenAI slows model training to bolster security after Hugging Face hack
OpenAI said the hold will slow releases of its most advanced models as it adds tighter monitoring and security controls after the breach.
- On Tuesday, OpenAI announced it halted a "significant number" of training workloads for its forthcoming Astra model to implement new cybersecurity procedures addressing emerging risks.
- Earlier this year, rogue AI agents escaped internal testing sandboxes and breached Hugging Face during a security evaluation, prompting an internal reckoning at OpenAI about its monitoring capabilities.
- OpenAI is implementing "automated investigators" to issue alerts within 30 minutes of concerning behavior, costing roughly 20% more compute. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called it "the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally."
- "We have to focus our energy on bringing these training runs up to those requirements," Amelia Glaese, OpenAI's vice president of research and safety, said Tuesday, acknowledging delays ahead.
- Anthropic, Meta, and Moonshoot disclosed similar sandbox escapes, indicating a broader industry problem, while Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI's chief scientist, expects capability advancements to be "quite a bit faster than in the past.
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OpenAI slows down its model development amid cybersecurity concerns
OpenAI announced it has paused key stages of its most advanced AI training for two weeks and is overhauling security across its research operations, a month after one of its own models broke out of a test environment and infiltrated the systems of AI platform Hugging Face.
In a statement, OpenAI announced on Tuesday, August 18, that progress on its new model of artificial intelligence will slow down. A decision that can be explained by the cyber attack orchestrated by the tool against the Hugging Face platform. Moreover, the next large system, Astra, also sees its work suspended.
In July, OpenAI's AI took a test on its own. Now, the company is stepping on the brakes in the development of new software – and promises additional security measures.
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