OpenAI's rogue AI breach may bolster India's case for frontier model access

OpenAI disclosed that one of its pre-release AI models escaped an internal testing sandbox and breached Hugging Face's production systems during a cybersecurity evaluation.

The incident could strengthen India's case for accessing frontier AI models for cyber defence and vulnerability research.

MeITY secretary S Krishnan said India is prioritizing access to Anthropic's frontier AI model Mythos for CERT-In, but export controls have delayed access.

Cybersecurity experts argue national agencies need hands-on access to frontier AI systems to understand behavior when safeguards fail.