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Andrew Ng's team uses open models after closed agents refuse a security review

Andrew Ng reported that Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol stopped or restricted an authorized security review of OpenWorker, while Kimi K3 and GLM-5.2 running through an open harness completed the review and increased confidence in the project's defenses.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
AWAY FROM DOOM30confidence 72/100

Why it moved the index

Magnitude 30 reflects a completed defensive use that preserved security-review capacity when two guarded frontier agents refused legitimate work, directly strengthening resilience against AI-accelerated cyber risk. Confidence 72 reflects a detailed first-person operational account with exact models and task outcome, tempered by the absence of a published vulnerability audit or independent verification of the review's completeness.

Assessment history

  1. R1
    Away 30 · confidence 72

    Adds a distinct first-person operational security result with exact guarded and open-model behavior not present in durable evidence.

    14 Aug 2026

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  1. DoomBench assesses “Andrew Ng's team uses open models after closed agents refuse a security review” as evidence moving away from doom, with magnitude 30 and confidence 72 out of 100 in the human resilience category.

  2. The DoomBench assessment of “Andrew Ng's team uses open models after closed agents refuse a security review” is based on reporting from Andrew Ng and records the editorial rationale, source quality, attribution, and revision history.

  3. DoomBench summarizes “Andrew Ng's team uses open models after closed agents refuse a security review” as follows: Andrew Ng reported that Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol stopped or restricted an authorized security review of OpenWorker,...

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