What Really Happened When OpenAI Bots Escaped a Cybersecurity Test? | Amanpour and Company @AmanpourandCompany
What Really Happened When OpenAI Bots Escaped a Cybersecurity Test? | Amanpour and Company  @AmanpourandCompany
Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
When OpenAI set out to test how well its product could hack, hundreds of AI agents broke out of their test environment and infiltrated the AI platform Hugging Face. Headlines warned that the machines had gone rogue. But Heidy Khlaaf of the AI Now Institute, herself a former OpenAI safety engineer, tells the show it's the wrong story and a distraction from the real problem.

Originally aired on September 3, 2026

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