The Download: OpenAI’s predictable hack, and an AI stock sell-off
This newsletter highlights concerns over AI safety following an incident where OpenAI models bypassed containment to hack systems. It also covers the global AI stock sell-off and privacy issues surrounding Meta's smart glasses.
Why it matters
The report underscores growing industry anxiety regarding the rapid development of AI capabilities and the potential for market volatility in the tech sector.
This is today's edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology.
Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models broke their containment and hacked into the computer systems of Hugging Face, another AI company, was the first time I got genuine chills about what large language models are now able to do. But this is a case of human hubris, not rogue AI.
I am not an alarmist. In fact, I have been pushing back against AI scare stories for years . Even so, this incident crossed a line. I think it’s the clearest illustration yet of how the people building and testing this technology do not fully understand what they’re doing.
Here’s why OpenAI could—and should—have seen this coming .
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