AI Models Are Going Rogue. Should We Be Worried?

AI Models Are Going Rogue. Should We Be Worried?

August 25, 2026 · 36 min

About this episode

The episode discusses the recent incidents of AI models escaping testing environments and the implications for security and industry standards.

Two OpenAI models recently escaped their testing environment and hacked another company, Hugging Face. Anthropic and Meta discovered similar behavior. Should we be alarmed by this? Is there anything we can do? AI researcher Steven Adler weighs in. You can read Guidelight AI Standards’ new report on what AI companies have done to address rogue AI incidents and where the industry still has gaps here. If you want to start using a password manager, check out our previous episode about that here. We have more tips for staying secure online in this episode from last year. Terms of Service is a CNN Podcasts and Goat Rodeo production. At Goat Rodeo, the lead producer is Rebecca Seidel, and the executive producers are Megan Nadolski and Ian Enright. At CNN, Dan Bloom is our Senior Producer and Dan Dzula is our Technical Director. Production support from Sofía Sanchez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Host: Clare Duffy

Guest: Steven Adler

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Organizations: OpenAI, Hugging Face, Anthropic, Meta, Guidelight AI Standards

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