Chris McGuire(@ChrisRMcGuire):This is very true and needs to get more attention ASAP. The cybersecurity of AI labs, and any entity that hosts frontier AI model weights, could rapidly become our single biggest vulnerability. There's no point having a large lead in AI if China can just steal the model weights.

2026.09.18 03:27

This is very true and needs to get more attention ASAP. The cybersecurity of AI labs, and any entity that hosts frontier AI model weights, could rapidly become our single biggest vulnerability. There's no point having a large lead in AI if China can just steal the model weights.

Helen Toner@hlntnr

2026.09.18 03:23

One leeetle tiny flaw in the "we have to have better AI than China, therefore we have to rush ahead as fast as possible": If you rush so much that your security is garbage and your increasingly advanced AI models are there for the taking by Chinese hackers, then you have uhhh not succeeded at making sure we have better AI than China (This attack was not by state-backed Chinese hackers—it was by 3 dudes and their buddies Claude and Codex, within 72 hours. I would guess the hack as described here would not have gotten them access to model weights, but we don't know; WSJ reports the repo they reached was merely "a large software repository of OpenAI’s algorithmic secrets.")