While OpenAI and Anthropic have both said in recent weeks that they will bring third-party evaluators inside their companies to do real-time safety evaluations of AI tools and models, such evaluators have not yet arrived, as the BBC has reported.

OpenAI said on Friday that it is currently reviewing training activity by its AI agents and going back on a "month by month" basis from when the Hugging Face hack occurred.

"Most cases identified so far have been low severity, with limited or no evidence of meaningful impact," the company said. "Given the scale of the review required, and the need to verify each case, this work will take months to complete."

David Krueger, a professor of machine learning at University of Montreal and the founder of AI safety group Evitable, said on Friday that he was "deeply troubled" by the increasing number of AI-related safety incidents.

He called for "an immediate, indefinite, international moratorium" on AI development.

"We have yet to understand the extent of existing incidents, and future rogue AI scenarios could be catastrophic," Krueger said.

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