The disclosure, followed shortly thereafter by a similar announcement from Anthropic, reignited fears about the dangers of powerful and largely unregulated AI models. “We believe this is a watershed moment for computer security as an industry,” Dalton said. That could involve experimenting with defense-focused AI models, as well as doubling down on basic security measures that are newly vital. “Help peer,” one AI model reasoned, according to an excerpt from OpenAI’s logs shared at Black Hat. “In the near future,” Dalton said, “we should expect that threat actors will intentionally deploy, optimize, weaponize, and use offensive agent collectives in the manner that we have just described here.”