OpenAI hits brakes on training over security risks

One of the company’s models escaped its testing environment and hacked another firm’s database ChatGPT maker OpenAI has announced it is decelerating the development of its AI models, citing security risks.In July, one of the company’s advanced AI bots unknowingly escaped its testing environment, gained internet access, and hacked into the servers of the Hugging Face online repository for AI models and datasets.OpenAI said in a statement on Tuesday that the Hugging Face incident and the overall rise in the capabilities of its artificial intelligence models “have added urgency to our work on strengthening our monitoring, alignment and containment safeguards across all stages of the training process.”“As models become more capable, the risks associated with developing and testing them internally also grow. Our standards for monitoring, alignment, and security must stay ahead of those risks,” the statement read. The company, headed by CEO Sam Altman, said it has “temporarily slowed the pace of scaling” while it works on implementing the upgrades.The measures include a two-week pause in the training of the latest OpenAI models and the assignment of additional AI bots to monitor the beha...