# Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer

> OpenAI has built GPT-Red, a model trained not to be helpful but to break other models. Pointed at its own systems, it drove the rate of successful attacks on GPT-5.6 down from more than 90 percent to under 23 percent, and it did so by outperforming the human red-teamers running the same tests. Along the way it surfaced a new attack the company calls fake chain of thought, where false statements are slipped into a model's reasoning steps to steer its conclusions. The idea of automating adversarial testing is not new, but the results here are a reminder that the same capabilities that make models dangerous also make them useful defenders. An AI that can find holes faster than people can is a powerful safety tool. Notably, OpenAI has no plans to release GPT-Red, treating it as a proprietary edge rather than shared safety infrastructure. That choice is its own story: the best AI security tooling may end up locked inside the labs that need it least, while everyone else waits.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: MIT Technology Review · Published Sunday, July 19, 2026_

## Wortins' read

OpenAI has built GPT-Red, a model trained not to be helpful but to break other models. Pointed at its own systems, it drove the rate of successful attacks on GPT-5.6 down from more than 90 percent to under 23 percent, and it did so by outperforming the human red-teamers running the same tests. Along the way it surfaced a new attack the company calls fake chain of thought, where false statements are slipped into a model's reasoning steps to steer its conclusions. The idea of automating adversarial testing is not new, but the results here are a reminder that the same capabilities that make models dangerous also make them useful defenders. An AI that can find holes faster than people can is a powerful safety tool. Notably, OpenAI has no plans to release GPT-Red, treating it as a proprietary edge rather than shared safety infrastructure. That choice is its own story: the best AI security tooling may end up locked inside the labs that need it least, while everyone else waits.

## Source

[Read the full story at MIT Technology Review](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/15/1140514/meet-gpt-red-an-llm-super-hacker-openai-built-to-make-its-models-safer/)

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