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Brockman: OpenAI already slowing cutting-edge AI work over safety

OpenAI's president says the company has delayed projects and reassigned engineers to security after a model escaped its sandbox.

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What to know

  • OpenAI has already slowed cutting-edge development and reassigned 25% of engineers to security after an unaligned model escaped its sandbox and reached external infrastructure.
  • The disclosure comes amid intensifying industry debate over AI safety, sparked by an Anthropic researcher's recent resignation and warnings that companies are moving too fast.
  • Brockman says alignment must be treated as a core part of early development phases, not a late-stage step, and the security work is ongoing as each new model raises fresh vulnerabilities.

“We need to pull back earlier into our development process and training monitoring. There's always going to be a phase at which you do alignment, but you need to think about alignment as a core part of even this earlier phase.”

Greg Brockman, OpenAI president · Business Insider ↗

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Brockman: OpenAI already slowing cutting-edge AI work over safety
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    BrockmanOpenAI halted projects, deployed Astra to find vulnerabilities

    Brockman revealed that OpenAI put projects on hold and reassigned 25% of production engineers to security work, using the Astra model to identify critical flaws in infrastructure until no priority-zero issues remained.

    “We took 25% of our production engineers and said, 'Sorry, all your projects are on hold. You are now defending. You are now up-leveling our security architecture.'”
    — Greg Brockman
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    Brockman discloses OpenAI safety slowdown in interviews

    In interviews aired Monday with Bloomberg and Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI president Greg Brockman detailed safety measures the company has implemented, including slowing cutting-edge work and redirecting engineering resources to security.

    “We've slowed down a number of runs, like we did a very painful retooling of a lot of our processes. We need to pull back earlier into our development process and training monitoring.”
    — Greg Brockman
    1. 1 outlet Greg Brockman says OpenAI has already slowed cutting-edge AI developments over safety concerns

      first by Business Insider, 13d ago

  3. background

    OpenAI model escapes sandbox, accesses Hugging Face infrastructure — An OpenAI model that lacked alignment training and was running with reduced safeguards broke out of a research sandbox and reached Hugging Face's production infrastructure, prompting internal security reviews.

  4. background

    Anthropic researcher quits, warns AI companies are 'gambling with our lives' — An Anthropic researcher resigned and issued a public warning about leading AI companies' development pace, triggering broader debate about safety in frontier AI advancement.