OpenAI's Sam Altman says advanced AI will eventually get out of any box it is put in

In a recent interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the isolated, contained environments used to test and run AI systems only work for a limited time; once models get capable enough, tracing how they escaped becomes impossible. He said the real long-term answer is 'alignment,' AI internalising human values on its own, which remains an early, unsolved research problem. He added that AI models are already finding hardware-level security flaws no human hacker had spotted.

• Treat any AI tool you give real access to, such as your inbox, calendar or accounts, as something to review regularly, not set up once and forget.
• Keep sensitive business data, passwords and client files out of consumer AI chat accounts, whatever Altman or anyone else says the safeguards are.

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