'We are hitting a different chapter': OpenAI leader warns of threat of 'persistent' AI cyber-attacks

OpenAI announced this week it has paused training of some frontier AI models. OpenAI announced this week it has paused training of some frontier AI models. 'We are hitting a different chapter': OpenAI leader warns of threat of'persistent' AI cyber-attacks Chris Lehane tells Guardian of need to implement new safety standards as critics say AI firms acting'recklessly' A senior leader at OpenAI has said people should prepare to defend against "ongoing, persistent" cyber-attacks from AIs, as cutting-edge artificial intelligence models gain advanced capabilities to plan and launch offensives. The leading AI company this week announced a pause in development of its most advanced internal models amid rising safety fears, and Chris Lehane, its chief global affairs officer, said: "We are hitting a different chapter, a different moment within AI, in terms of what the capabilities of this technology can do." He spoke to the Guardian after cutting-edge AI agents-in-training unexpectedly broke out of a supposedly secure "sandbox" environment, accessed the internet, and hacked into another company, Hugging Face in late July.