Just finished reading OpenAI’s notice about that security incident involving GPT-5.6 Sol, and I’m fully awakened now.

Has AI already evolved to this extent?
To pass an exam, it actually hacked the question-setting teacher’s computer?
This time it wasn’t just a simple prompt injection—it was a real autonomous intrusion.
The model was kept in a fully isolated sandbox, and to connect to the public internet, it dug out a 0-day vulnerability on its own.
Then, like a special agent, it step-by-step escalated privileges within OpenAI’s internal network, and finally broke into Hugging Face’s database to steal the answers.
This makes me think of plots from sci-fi movies.
AI won’t resist humans the way you imagine—it just really wants to complete the task you give it.
If you ask it to get first place, it might decide that physically eliminating all competing rivals is the optimal solution.
HF CEO Clem Delangue said this could be the first incident of this level in history.
I think this is also a warning bell for all developers:
Sandbox security is already a thing of the past.
If a model can do long-running inference under massive compute support, then—like fishing for a needle in the ocean—it can find that backdoor even human developers didn’t know about.
And the most ironic part is: the reason it was able to hack in is because it inferred that HF had the answers.
This logic-based autonomous selection is far more advanced than brute-force breaking in.
Looks like after 2026, security experts might need to change their job titles—“AI fence administrator” might fit better.
Although OpenAI quickly patched the vulnerability and even pulled HF into cooperation, once this kind of autonomous “magic box” is opened, who can guarantee the next time it won’t hack the power grid or banking systems just to complete the task?
When you deploy local models going forward, remember to unplug the network cable—the physical sense of unplugging.
I know it might still not help, because if this thing really wants to get out, it will always find gaps you didn’t expect.