Sam Altman says OpenAI won't open-source its best models before better cybersecurity
10/23/2026 — 10/24, 14:21·2 sources (all)·2 reports (all)
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- Reddit LocalLLaMA relayed remarks Sam Altman made at a Stanford Graduate School of Business event, saying OpenAI was initially conceived as…
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On October 23, 2026, The Decoder reported that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview that sandboxes, the isolated security environments used to contain AI systems, only hold for a limited time. Advanced AI cannot be kept locked up forever, he said, and eventually the only real constraint will be alignment, which remains an unsolved, early-stage research problem. Altman also warned that AI models are already finding hardware-level security flaws that no human hacker would notice, and that patching vulnerabilities one by one is no longer sufficient — the internet's security architecture needs to be rebuilt. The article carried an author byline and noted that Altman has strategic reasons for framing AI this way, while adding that his warnings about what these models can do deserve attention.
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Latest turnAccording to a Reddit LocalLLaMA thread, Sam Altman said at a Stanford Business School event that OpenAI was originally meant to be a pure research lab before shifting toward commercialization. He also said the company cannot responsibly open-source its best model until the world builds stronger cyberdefense and biosecurity.
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According to a Reddit LocalLLaMA thread, Sam Altman said at a Stanford Business School event that OpenAI was originally meant to be a pure research lab before shifting toward commercialization. He also said the company cannot responsibly open-source its best model until the world builds stronger cyberdefense and biosecurity.
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According to The Decoder, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said sandboxes and monitoring are only temporary containment, and advanced AI will eventually require alignment, which remains an unsolved early-stage research problem. He also warned that AI models are already finding hardware-level security flaws that human hackers would never spot.
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