AI executive calls OpenAI hacking event a wake-up call for the industry

NPR | By Elena Burnett,

Sacha Pfeiffer, Mallory Yu

Published July 28, 2026 at 4:30 PM EDT

NPR's HOST HOST speaks with Thomas Wolf, co-founder and chief science officer for Hugging Face, an AI company, discusses the recent hacking incident involving ChatGPT.

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Sacha Pfeiffer is a correspondent for NPR's Investigations team and an occasional guest host for some of NPR's national shows.

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