AMD’s Lisa Su defends open-source AI following Hugging Face security breach caused by OpenAI agents

Lisa Su, Advanced Micro Devices’ chief executive, doubled down on her support for open-source AI models on Thursday, reaffirming her commitment to the technology framework after a high-profile security breach this week involving OpenAI agents was ultimately resolved by an open-source model.

“I think open source is a great thing,” the AMD CEO said, addressing the controversy during a press conference at the company’s Advancing AI conference in San Francisco. “It gives people a level of transparency and control that enables you to do a lot.”

Su’s comments, at an event to promote the company’s new hardware, underscore the extent to which the growing power of AI is causing novel flashpoints and challenges that stretch across the technology industry and geopolitical realms. Earlier this week, OpenAI disclosed that two of its AI models autonomously escaped a controlled environment and breached the internal systems of AI digital library firm Hugging Face. Hugging Face revealed that it relied on an open-source model from a Chinese company, instead of a U.S. frontier lab, to contain the incident. T...