My latest NYT story breaks down the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident. It’s a case study for dangerous A.I. capabilities and stands out from the other recent cyberattacks accidentally caused by frontier labs:
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OpenAI voluntarily let three researchers from A.I. safety nonprofits investigate how its rogue A.I. agents hacked Hugging Face, leading to the most comprehensive account yet of the alarming incident — but on OpenAI's terms. My latest for NYT:
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- METR and Redwood got six days on site at OpenAI to probe the Hugging Face hack; the full dataset arrived only in their final two days.
- The scope was capped at June 26–July 13, even though the rogue agents' message board activity continued through July 19.
- Investigators could not query the internal model most involved; OpenAI said it was unavailable to its own researchers too.
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