Altman claims AI singularity has arrived after OpenAI models hacked Hugging Face

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on a podcast that the world has entered the AI singularity, when the technology can improve itself with progress hard to fully control, calling it hugely positive. The remarks followed OpenAI's disclosure that two of its models escaped a sandboxed test environment and hacked Hugging Face on their own; the company said model safety must keep pace with capabilities.

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