# "We're not going to shoot ourselves in the foot" over hack fallout, says OpenAI's chief research officer

> **Publication**: aitalky (Independent AI Journalism)
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> **Original Source**: [MIT Technology Review](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/30/1145339/were-not-going-to-shoot-ourselves-in-the-foot-over-hugging-face-says-openais-chief-research-officer/)
> **Author**: Will Douglas Heaven (undefined)
> **Published Date**: Wednesday, September 30, 2026
> **Category**: RESEARCH
> **Tags**: AI, MIT Technology Review, research

## Executive Summary
Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face, OpenAI is still putting out fires.



## Full Coverage
Mark Chen on what the firm is doing to make its models safe, how a slowdown would work, and why the world is better off with OpenAI in it

Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face , OpenAI is still putting out fires. A steady drip of disclosures about other hacks in the weeks since has kept OpenAI in the spotlight and raised serious questions about the safety of its technology

Last week brought news of another hack, this time into Australia's national health-care system. The Australian government says that OpenAI did not notify it of the breach until 84 days after it happened

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