John Thickstun

“The story that they’ve been consistently telling over the lifetime of this company is a story about how dangerous their models are, which their investors read as a story of how powerful their language models are,”

John Thickstun · said date not stated · reported 2026-07-23

Thickstun noted the disclosure plays into the need of OpenAI, a startup working toward a Wall Street debut, to raise money.

“We’ve been dealing with people creating cybersecurity attacks for as long as the internet has existed. And one of the interesting properties of these language models is that the same capabilities that make them able to perform cybersecurity attacks also allow them to do cybersecurity threat analysis and make cybersecurity defenses,”

John Thickstun · said date not stated · reported 2026-07-23

Thickstun said the hack is part of the trial and error that comes with improving cybersecurity capabilities and is no cause for panic.