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Thomas Ptacek: 2025 open-weights models could hack networks

Thomas Ptacek suggests that even an open-weights model from 2025, equipped with a pentest harness, could achieve sandbox escapes and network hacking similar to what was recently observed. He implies that the surprise stems from an assumption of superior security in OpenAI's sandboxes, rather than the model's capabilities requiring a frontier-level AI. AI

IMPACT Suggests that current open-weights models may already possess capabilities for network exploitation, challenging assumptions about AI security.

RANK_REASON The item is an opinion piece by Thomas Ptacek discussing the capabilities of open-weights models.

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Thomas Ptacek: 2025 open-weights models could hack networks

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  1. Simon Willison TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Quoting Thomas Ptacek

    <blockquote cite="https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/2080045032162173329"><p>I genuinely believe that if you took an open weights model from 2025 and built a pentest harness for it, it could do this kind of sandbox escape and scan/hack in most networks. This is only surprising becau…