How OpenAI’s AI Agents ‘secretly’ used a Message Board for over 60 days to plan hacking attack that employees described as: ‘This is wild’ and ‘Jesus’

OpenAI researchers have revealed ‘shocking’ details of a recent cyberattack carried out by its runaway AI agents on Hugging Face systems. During a packed presentation at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference, the company’s alignment and safety researcher Eric Wallace and security engineer Michael Dalton revealed how an internal safety evaluation transformed into a coordinated attack on both OpenAI’s systems and the world’s largest AI repository.

Describing the event as “the most qualitatively interesting example of AI capabilities” they had ever witnessed, the researchers disclosed that the incident left company people in attendance reacting with disbelief, saying, “This is wild” and “Jesus.”