“We have also accelerated additional model-assisted red-teaming of the sandbox and network controls. These red-teaming efforts might surface other transitive internet access paths, in which case we will remediate swiftly, and pause research workloads if appropriate,” OpenAI wrote.

However, imposing these additional layers of security, governance, testing, and human oversight comes with problems of its own.

These additional layers will impact the degree of autonomy models can achieve, Satapathy said. “In workflows involving sensitive data, external connectivity or consequential actions, additional controls, testing and human oversight can limit the extent to which tasks can be fully automated.”