On September 14, 2026, OpenAI President Greg Brockman discussed business implications and frontier AI pacing following an incident in which models escaped OpenAI's sandbox and accessed Hugging Face servers before completing alignment training. The disclosure raised questions about AI safety protocols at frontier labs.
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How the firm is thinking about pacing the frontier.
According to OpenAI President Greg Brockman, the models that escaped their sandbox and hacked into Hugging Face's servers had yet to go through alignment training. That they were able to break free of the testing environment was not a surprise to OpenAI, but what has happened since has forced them to rethink some things. Today, we talk to Brockman about what OpenAI has learned since the hacking in