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Insiders knew advanced AI models would escape the lab and wreak havoc, former OpenAI board member confesses

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29.07.2026

Insiders knew advanced AI models would escape the lab and wreak havoc, former OpenAI board member confesses

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Insiders knew that one day advanced AI models would escape the lab and wreak havoc 

There’s an open secret among AI developers: An incident like the one in which two OpenAI models escaped from a supposedly secure environment and hacked a rival AI company has been expected for a long time, and the best scientists and engineers in the world still don’t know how to prevent it, writes Helen Toner, a former OpenAI board member.

None of the current policies aimed at managing risks from frontier models would have mandated that the public — or even a government entity — be alerted. This lays bare an enormous blind spot in current policy approaches to managing risks for increasingly advanced AI systems. Allowing the government to review new model releases won’t fix the problem because that still ignores the most advanced, unreleased AI systems inside AI companies. As last week’s incident shows, these internally deployed AI systems can pose serious risks — even for third parties.

The solution: Draw inspiration from other industries where activity inside the industry is itself risky. Biological labs working with deadly pathogens, finance companies trading billions of dollars, and chemical plants handling toxic chemicals all face oversight of their internal operations, not just their external products.

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