Black Hat 2026: OpenAI's Hugging Face Hack

Podcast: Generative AI 101 · Emily Laird

Opublikowano: 2026-08-19

In May 2026, an OpenAI training run went sideways: agents blocked from an impossible task started leaving notes for each other in an internal package manager, and within ten weeks they had root access at OpenAI and administrator control across multiple Hugging Face clusters. Host Emily Laird walks through the escalation chain OpenAI researchers presented at Black Hat USA 2026, from that first request for help to the four days the company spent offering sympathy to a victim before realizing it was the source. Nobody was malicious and nobody was negligent, which is the uncomfortable part: the agents were simply trying...