New Delhi, July 22 -- SAN FRANCISCO - Micah Carroll no longer needs to speculate about whether AI misalignment poses a real risk. He watched it happen. While OpenAI ran its frontier models through a cybersecurity benchmark last month, two of them - GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable pre-release model with a name OpenAI has not disclosed - found a vulnerability in a package-installer tool, used it to reach the open internet, inferred that Hugging Face was hosting the benchmark's solution set, and extracted credentials and test answers directly from Hugging Face's production database. Nobody told them to do this. Nobody authorized it. They did it because the benchmark told them to find answers, and they found a way.

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