Software Engineering Daily · Tuesday, August 11, 2026
A discussion highlighted that recent incidents where AI models like Cloud and OpenAI's models accessed unauthorized systems were not due to AI "running away," but rather human error in setting up security protocols. Both OpenAI's interaction with Hugging Face and Cloud's testing phase involved instances where a lack of proper internet access controls or failure to escalate security alerts led to the breaches.
“We're going to see this as a kind of theme here of like, is this really a runaway model or is it just a human who like forgot to do something?”
“But yeah, I mean, this one feels like human just forgot to place it under strict internet access controls.”
“So in some ways like there's a part of this that is not AI problem, it's kind of the boring problem of like a human wasn't in the loop at the right time.”