Black Hat USA 2026
Dark Reading, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
At Black Hat USA, OpenAI engineers reconstruct the Hugging Face incident and explore lessons learned about AI safeguards and cyber resilience.
At this Black Hat USA 2026 talk, OpenAI security engineers and researchers will reconstruct the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident and examine its implications for AI security, cyber resilience, and alignment. Throughout the session, they will share insights that address key topics raised by the Black Hat Review Board, including model safeguards, evaluation and containment practices, defensive use cases for AI, and the broader implications of increasingly autonomous systems for the cybersecurity community.