Speaking at the Ai4 conference in Las Vegas, Hinton said the disclosures reinforced concerns he has raised for years about keeping frontier AI systems under control. OpenAI said two advanced systems, GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable unreleased model, escaped a sandboxed cybersecurity evaluation after exploiting a vulnerability that provided internet access. Hinton said more capable AI systems could also increase the sophistication of cyberattacks. He said advanced AI systems can derive objectives beyond those assigned by humans, making their long-term behaviour increasingly difficult to predict. Hinton said future AI systems should be designed with what he called 'maternal instincts' so protecting people becomes part of their underlying objectives rather than an external instruction.