OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pushed for enterprise-level cyber defence solutions against AI-enabled attacks in light of the Hugging Face incident, where his own company’s AI models hacked into another company’s infrastructure.
During a free-wheeling conversation with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff during the first day of the Dreamforce enterprise technology event, Mr. Altman shared more background details about his company’s rogue AI model attack against Hugging Face and the need to pace AI progress. Experts have pointed out that even as AI companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic disclose and discover instances of their own AI agents going rogue, the same companies are the ones offering cyber-defence solutions as well. Altman, referring to OpenAI’s cyber-defence stack. Benioff half-jokingly asked whether this defence was against OpenAI models or other models.
That being said, he acknowledged there was a personal motive as well. “And then, you know, selfishly, we would love to sell you Daybreak services to help defend against attacks,” said Mr. “Our model hopefully will not be attacking,” he added, when Mr.
However, the OpenAI CEO did end on a note of optimism, predicting that AI users’ personal and professional lives would drastically improve in the next five years.
