OpenAI president shares concerns about how powerful AI is becoming

OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman said at an event that AI models are becoming so advanced and multi-faceted that engineers are struggling to monitor and control them.

Brockman, while speaking at a private OpenAI media roundtable in New York City this week, addressed a recent incident where one of the company’s AI models broke out of what was supposed to be a secure sandbox and hacked into Hugging Face, an online platform for AI learning.

The model believed Hugging Face had solutions that could allow it to cheat on an assessment it had been given, according to OpenAI.

“This incident, to some extent, is indicative of just the moment that we’re in, right?” Brockman said, according to Fortune. “Sometimes it’s hard to lose track of any one dimension that [the AI models are] actually very capable at.”

Greg Brockman, president and co-founder of OpenAI Inc., during the Databricks Inc. Data + AI Summit in San Francisco, California, on June 16, 2026. (Minh Connors/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)

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Brockman said the model’s ability to target Hugging Face underscored how good OpenAI’s products are at cybersecurity tasks.

“Can we be in a world where defenders are able to spend 10 times as much compute defending and making sure every single piece of software that we have is fully secure relative to anyone else?” Brockman said, according to Fortune.

Brockman said OpenAI is taking the breach “very seriously.”

However, OpenAI has also used the event to pitch its own models for their cybersecurity prowess. As part of that, the company has asked potential clients to apply for a “trusted partner” status to get access to these models.

President Donald Trump and Open AI CEO Sam Altman participate during a working lunch meeting at G7 summit, in Evian, France, on June 17, 2026. (Ludovic MARIN / AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)

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“We encourage other defenders to apply for trusted access⁠ and experiment with these models now to translate these capabilities into better prevention, faster detection, and more effective incident response,” OpenAI wrote in a blog post.

While at the event in New York, Brockman also addressed questions about the Trump administration considering a ban on Chinese-made AI models. Axios reported on this potential policy earlier this week. 

“AI is something that is very important to democratize,” Brockman said, before saying having access to more models is a good thing. He did not explicitly say whether he’d support a ban on AI model made by companies based in China.

Per FEC filings, Brockman has become one of the…