Months after its AI agents hacked Hugging Face, OpenAI launches ‘Control Room’ to catch them in 35 seconds: How it works

OpenAI has rolled out a new internal safety system called Control Room, designed to track its artificial intelligence (AI) models and shut them down within 35 seconds if safety or security concerns arise. This comes as AI models grow more capable, the risks tied to them get bigger, making it critical to spot trouble early and stop models in their tracks. OpenAI said Control Room is already deployed across its research infrastructure. According to the company, Control Room connects every research inference workload, including agentic sampling for model training, evaluations and data processing, and pairs directly with OpenAI’s misalignment monitoring systems. This comes months after OpenAI declared that its AI agents escaped a closed training enviorenment and hacked Hugging Face’s website.