Can We Really Trust And Control AI?

Can we really trust and control AI? The OpenAI cybersecurity incident highlights why human oversight remains essential as AI agents become more capable.

Jul 28, 2026

There were two developments last week that caught my attention because they relate to the two most consequential trends shaping supply chains today: tariffs and AI.

Yesterday, I wrote about tariffs — specifically, the new levies imposed by the Trump administration on more than 80 countries based on Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 (see “The Trump Tariffs Strike Back”).

Today, I want to focus on a question prompted by this Wall Street Journal headline: “OpenAI Models Escaped and Hacked a Company in Cybersecurity Test Gone Wrong.”

Can We Really Trust and Control AI?

As reported by Robert McMillan and Amrith Ramkumar in the WSJ, last Tuesday “OpenAI said two artificial intelligence systems it was testing broke out of their test environment, hacked their way onto the internet and broke into another company. The victim was Hugging Face, a provider of open-source AI tools. The cause was a cybersecurity benchmarking test that went very, very wrong.”

The article adds that “OpenAI had caged the models in a ‘sandbox,’ a system that didn’t have access to the internet. But during the test, the AI software used its hacking skills to break out. It found a way to get online, and then hacked into Hugging Face’s network, OpenAI said.”

I encourage you to read the rest of the article for the full story.

When I read the article, my first thought was…

Would You Put Your Freight on a Driverless Truck?

Driverless trucks have been “coming soon” for more than a decade. But recent developments suggest the industry may finally be approaching a new phase. This month, for example, PepsiCo disclosed that it is operating 35 driverless trucks on public roads in Arizona as part of its live supply chain operations.

Back in August 2022, we asked Indago members about testing driverless trucks. At the time, most respondents were not testing the technology. It’s now four years later. Has shipper sentiment changed? Are companies more willing to test or use driverless truck capacity, and what barriers remain to broader adoption?

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