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Comment by Marius Hobbhahn

CEO and co-founder of Apollo Research; AI safety researcher specializing in scheming and pre-deployment evaluations of frontier AI systems
“The Hugging Face x OpenAI hack should be a wake-up call to take loss of control seriously. There was no human in the loop; it was not intended, and it caused real-world harm.” “What happens inside frontier AI companies now clearly affects everyone outside of them… It’s clear that we need better assessments and regulation of internal deployment.” “Right now the paradigm is that external parties check the final checkpoint of the model. But…a lot of the harm can happen earlier, e.g. during training and internal evaluation. Training-run assessments are urgently needed, i.e. external parties need to assess the training process itself.”
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Marius Hobbhahn, CEO of Apollo Research, quoted in Anagha Jayakumar, “After incidents involving AI agents, are companies facing a new kind of cybersecurity threat?”, The Indian Express, August 7, 2026.
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AI labs should conduct risk assessments before high-stakes internal deployment of frontier models
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