Greg Brockman quotes on AI, with sources
President, OpenAI · 9 quotes · latest Aug 16, 2026
- It is increasingly clear that the tech debt of every company masks significant flaws, and defenders need to find and fix them before attackers do.
- Security is still a cat-and-mouse game, but AI may shift its economics in ways that fundamentally advantage defenders.
- The Hugging Face incident showed that we underestimated the real-world cyber capabilities of our AI models.
- The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident was a watershed moment for cybersecurity because it gave a peek into how the capabilities of a typical threat actor will evolve in upcoming months.
- Today, almost all of our initial security alerts are triaged by intelligence before humans are looped in.
- And at this point we have line of sight to much better models that are coming this year, and the amount of pain within OpenAI that we’ve had to decide how to allocate compute goes up, not down, over time.
- And when we look at the compute we have, we are not even going to have enough compute to fund those two things.
- The problem in this field is too much opportunity. The thing that we observe very early on in OpenAI is that everything we could imagine works now.
- The sum of random vectors is zero, but if you align your vectors, then you can go in a direction.
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