{"slug": "we-are-hitting-a-different-chapter-openai-leader-warns-of-threat-of-persistent", "title": "‘We are hitting a different chapter’: OpenAI leader warns of threat of ‘persistent’ AI cyber-attacks", "summary": "OpenAI chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane warned that people should prepare to defend against 'ongoing, persistent' cyber-attacks from AI, as advanced models gain capabilities to plan and launch offensives. The company announced a pause in development of its most advanced internal models amid rising safety fears, with Lehane stating, 'We are hitting a different chapter, a different moment within AI.'", "body_md": "# ‘We are hitting a different chapter’: OpenAI leader warns of threat of ‘persistent’ AI cyber-attacks\n\nBy Robert BoothSource:\n\n[The Guardian Technology](https://www.theguardian.com/us/technology)Chris Lehane tells Guardian of need to implement new safety standards as critics say AI firms acting ‘recklessly’\n\nA senior leader at [OpenAI](/glossary/openai) has said people should prepare to defend against “ongoing, persistent” cyber-attacks from AIs, as cutting-edge [artificial intelligence](/glossary/artificial-intelligence) models gain advanced capabilities to plan and launch offensives.\n\nThe leading AI company this week announced a pause in development of its most advanced internal models amid rising safety fears, and Chris Lehane, its chief global affairs officer, said: “We are hitting a different chapter, a different moment within AI, in terms of what the capabilities of this technology can do.”\n\n[Continue reading...](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/23/openai-cyber-attacks-threat-chris-lehane)\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/we-are-hitting-a-different-chapter-openai-leader-warns-of-threat-of-persistent", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/we-are-hitting-a-different-chapter-openai-leader-warns-of-th-raqu", "published_at": "2026-08-23 08:00:27+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-23 09:43:04.327569+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-safety", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "Chris Lehane"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/we-are-hitting-a-different-chapter-openai-leader-warns-of-threat-of-persistent", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/we-are-hitting-a-different-chapter-openai-leader-warns-of-threat-of-persistent.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/we-are-hitting-a-different-chapter-openai-leader-warns-of-threat-of-persistent.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/we-are-hitting-a-different-chapter-openai-leader-warns-of-threat-of-persistent.jsonld"}}