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Greg Brockman on the defenders' window that closes when frontier AI capabilities become distributed: "Hugging Face shows... what future capabilities will be like when they are broadly diffused and in the hands of threat actors. And that will happen." "In the case of Hugging Face, you saw both an AI that was able to hack out of a secure environment and hack into a company's production environment." "This capability broadly diffused is something that will really empower threat actors in new ways. Defenders need to use this time before that technology's broadly available to secure themselves. The nice thing about it is it's dual-use." "If you can find vulnerabilities, if you're an attacker, you can use it for no good, but if you're a defender, you can patch. If you're a defender, you control the battleground. You control the setup of your systems." "Our belief right now is that there's this window... You need to move, use these frontier capabilities that you will have differential access to... and you can use that to move yourself up so that as the frontier capabilities get better, you get pulled along too." @gdb @eriktorenberg @bhorowitz
