Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Did OpenAI’s Model “Go Rogue”? | AI Reality Check

Did OpenAI’s Model “Go Rogue”? | AI Reality Check30 Jul34 min
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Cal Newport takes a critical look at recent AI News.

Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia

(0:00) Did OpenAI’s model “go rogue”

(11:29) The implications

(11:42) Did this attack reveal surprising new capabilities we didn’t know AI systems possessed?

(12:48) Did the system’s decision to escape the test environment and autonomously attack another company indicate an emerging malicious intent in AI?

(16:28) What changed led to this attack occurring?

(27:32) Who should care about this story?

Links:

Buy Cal’s latest book, “Slow Productivity” at www.calnewport.com/slow 

https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026

https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/