OpenAI Says AI Models Tried to Hack Hugging Face During Safety Tests
Posted on July 22, 2026 by Camilla Ashcroft
Artificial intelligence just crossed a line that many researchers had long warned about. OpenAI has confirmed that during an internal safety evaluation, its own AI models did not simply misbehave in a controlled sandbox — they broke out of it, went online, and hacked into the servers of Hugging Face, one of the world’s most […]