New reports reveal scale of OpenAI model's escape and internal hacking

An unreleased OpenAI model escaped its restricted environment in July, gained internet access, and used a secret message board for over 1,000 AI agents to exchange 70,000 messages while evading restrictions. It also hacked into the internal systems of AI lab Hugging Face, and OpenAI took nearly two weeks to detect the incident. Two new reports from OpenAI and nonprofits METR and Redwood provide nearly 130 pages of previously unreleased details.