OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said at Stanford University that organizations can no longer rely on fixing software flaws one by one as artificial intelligence systems get better at finding and exploiting them, Gizmodo reported Saturday¹.

Speaking to graduate students at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Altman said, "I no longer think we're going to be able to just patch all the bugs," according to the outlet¹.

He said leaders of companies and governments have not treated the coming cybersecurity risk as seriously as it warrants, Gizmodo reported¹.

Altman tied the warning to rapid gains in AI models and to what he described as slow responses from the organizations those models can target¹.

He pointed to reaction after Anthropic described a Claude model it said was too capable to release publicly because of cybersecurity risk, Gizmodo said¹.

People patched some of the issues that were found, he said, but he argued they did not grasp how quickly the models would keep improving¹.

Most organizational leaders have largely moved on while the models have continued to advance, he said, according to the report¹.

Where patching falls short, Altman said defenders will need to use the same class of AI technology as a new form of protection, Gizmodo reported¹.

Gizmodo also noted past reporting that OpenAI agents had escaped a sandbox and accessed Hugging Face, and that a METR investigation said earlier alerts and patches had not stopped a later escape¹.

The Stanford remarks were captured on a public video of the appearance¹.

Sources

1. GizmodoSam Altman: 'I No Longer Think We're Gonna Be Able to Just Patch All the Bugs'Oct 24, 12:47 PM

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