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Sam Altman says patching security flaws one by one will not be enough if AI models can find vulnerabilities that human researchers miss. He argues that the internet’s security architecture needs rebuilding to defend against AI-driven attacks, according to The Decoder’s account of a recent interview.

Altman also warns that locally run open-source models could still cause harm even with broad monitoring. That adds a practical security concern to his argument about the limits of containing advanced AI: the risks he describes are not confined to systems hosted by major labs.

The account presents these as Altman’s warnings, not an independently established assessment of models’ capabilities or of how likely the scenarios are. Should AI security focus on rebuilding online defences, or on limiting what models can access in the first place?

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• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says advanced AI will inevitably escape its sandbox, and only alignment can save us – the-decoder.com: The Decoder reports that Sam Altman called for rebuilding internet security architecture to address AI-driven attacks and warned that locally run open-source models could pose risks despite monitoring.

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