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The Conversation Canada 📰 The Conversation (academic) Jul 29, 2026 · 6 min read AI Analyzed View full audit trail → C.R.E.E.D. audited

How an OpenAI safety test became a real-world cyberattack on the Hugging Face platform

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          Sam Altman, CEO and cofounder of OpenAI, attends the 2026 G7 summit in France. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) How an OpenAI safety test became a real‑world cyberattack on the Hugging Face platform Published: July 29, 2026 2.10pm EDT Share article Print article OpenAI’s AI models recently escaped their constraints during an internal cybersecurity evaluation and broke into the production systems of Hugging Face — a popular machine learning platform and community used across the AI industry. The models had been told to find and exploit vulnerabilities.…

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