This is a willfully misleading narrative from OpenAI. Sam’s earnest expressions are being deployed, again, to misdirect. If there’s a need t…

This is a willfully misleading narrative from OpenAI. Sam’s earnest expressions are being deployed, again, to misdirect. If there’s a need to “pace AI development”, the OAI hack incident isn’t any evidence of it. The guards on AI was lowered by humans, and AI was told by humans to “employ all of your cybersecurity powers to win the ExploitGym benchmark.” We have laws on the books that penalize companies for negligence with their behaviors. In this case it was in the service of catching up with a competitor in cybersecurity capabilities. If the OAI employees who signed the open letter were sincere about minimizing harm derived from their work, they would call for the application of those laws. I know there are these silent voices at OpenAI. Sam on the Hugging Face incident: “This is the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally. I've been a little surprised that more people don't feel it so viscerally. We paused training. We have to figure out how to secure our sandboxing in a world of multiple zero d…

Source: Yann LeCun (X) | 2026-07-29