This suggests a solution to the widely held belief that P=NP is not immutable; “an improved algorithm could imply that cryptographic systems relying on certain key sizes could be considered broken”
They are digging into these possibilities now to see if they hold up as true.
One belief is the following exerpt:
"Before scientific concerns, there are cybersecurity questions. Williams said that an improved algorithm could imply that cryptographic systems relying on certain key sizes could be considered broken. So one of the first questions he asked OpenAI science lead Dan Roberts “was if they had checked that this affects any crypto systems … is anything insecure now? And apparently, they checked, and they were reasonably confident that this didn’t … imply any breaks.”