{
  "id": 13030,
  "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/24/openai-rogue-hacker",
  "title": "Be skeptical of OpenAI’s rogue hacker agent story | John Thickstun",
  "summary": "If OpenAI loudly proclaims how dangerous AI is, investors will hear how powerful it is. And who benefits from that? On 14 February 2019, OpenAI announced a language model called GPT-2, the precursor to the models that power modern AI chatbots and agents such as ChatGPT and Claude. But OpenAI declared GPT-2 was too risky to release, citing concerns about safety and abuse. I recall being annoyed at the time that OpenAI would make such a useless announcement: the risks seemed overblown, and without",
  "authors": "John Thickstun",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy,finance-investment",
  "orgs": "openai",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-24T13:00:14.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-25T05:10:48.796Z",
  "source_slug": "guardian-ai",
  "source_name": "The Guardian",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.theguardian.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13030",
  "original_url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/24/openai-rogue-hacker",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}