It became known that at the beginning of 2023, a hacker gained access to the internal messaging systems of OpenAI and stole information about artificial intelligence technologies. The New York Times claims that OpenAI informed its employees about the incident, but not the public or law enforcement authorities.
The hacker managed to steal information from discussions on an online forum of OpenAI employees, where they were talking about the latest technologies. Fortunately for the company, the hacker was unable to breach the systems hosting and training the GPT models.
Unnamed sources of the publication say that some employees of the company expressed concern that such attacks could be in favor of China and other similar countries, jeopardizing the national security of the United States. Employees are worried about how seriously OpenAI takes security. It is said that there have been disagreements among the company's staff regarding the security risks of artificial intelligence.
In connection with this incident, former OpenAI Technical Program Manager Leopold Ashenbrenner wrote a memorandum to the management, stating that the company is not doing enough to stop the theft of secrets by foreign adversaries. Subsequently, OpenAI fired him for leaking information outside the company - he claims that the dismissal was politically motivated.
Disagreements on security are not new among company employees. Recently, several security researchers left the company due to disagreements over the management of superintelligent artificial intelligence.
According to OpenAI competitor Daniela Amodia, co-founder of Anthropic, if the latest developments in generative artificial intelligence were stolen, it would not pose a significant threat to national security. However, as this technology becomes more advanced, this could change.
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