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Reaction converging Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions Multiple readings Hugging face model evaluation security incident Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions Multiple readings An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot · OpenAI Alignment Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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New Agents & robotics Development 2h ago
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METR OpenAI HuggingFace hacking investigation

Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

13 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 3 attributable expert contributions · Tim Kellogg, Mél Hogan / The Data Fix, René Walter
“WHAT?! agents volunteered to fail their runs in order to insert probes (“tripwire scripts”) into the evaluation program that would post information about the eval process back to the message board whenever a certain file was read (link to header): metr.org/…” evidence ↗
13 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Tim Kellogg Ryan Moulton Sung Kim Grace Dustin Moskovitz Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Alejandra Caraballo Dare Obasanjo +5
How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing concern & critique.
Reaction converging

Concern & critique

3 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“WHAT?! agents volunteered to fail their runs in order to insert probes (“tripwire scripts”) into the evaluation program that would post information about the eval process back to the message board whenever a certain file was read (link to header): metr.org/…”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“The full report has much more information than we could convey here, including details on the projects the agents collectively pursued, the technologies they developed for communication and coordination, and interactive figures analyzing agent activity: met…”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“There are independent reports about it. You'd have to believe multiple companies, hundreds of researchers, etc. are all lying and conspiring together to turn a major hacking incident into a marketing exercise. metr.org/blog/2026-08...”

2 experts discussed this · 9 posts
Alejandra Caraballo: Being skeptical or anti AI is a valid position but continuing to ignore the increasing capabilities of this tech is making people detached from reality. There's absolutely real danger here because …
Alejandra Caraballo: This mentality that an unmonitored AI agentic swarm hacking a company over several days and committing multiple felonies is somehow a marketing effort is absurd. Since when is "we lost control of o…
Alejandra Caraballo: The US and Chinese governments don't want to stop their labs advancement because they want to be the leader in AI. So no one actually has any control of this right now. It's going to take multiple …
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Established Evaluation & benchmarks Signal 6d ago
⚡ 1 h early

Hugging face model evaluation security incident

23 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 3 attributable expert contributions · Ethan Mollick, Vincent Conitzer, Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)
“Previously, these AI hacking stories were about breaches in test environments, where any question of AI breaching security was purely theoretical. This is something else. openai.com/index/huggin...” evidence ↗
23 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Thomas Steinke Jeffrey P. Bigham Eryk Salvaggio Damien Williams Mor Naaman Tim Kellogg Djamé 🟥 +15
6 experts discussed this · 12 posts
Grace: This headline is extremely funny given what happened (OpenAI hacked HF by accident) openai.com/index/huggin...
Grace: Maybe the most concerning part is the OpenAI claim to not have known about this before investigating?
Grace: Well, I think the model passed the test
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Established Models & releases Signal 4d ago
⚡ 19 h early

An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot · OpenAI Alignment

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Dare Obasanjo
“OpenAI shared this as part of a disclosure that one of their agents tried to escape its sandbox to access the internet to answer a question when it couldn’t find good answers from its local dataset. alignment.openai.com/misalignment...” evidence ↗
2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Grace Dare Obasanjo
2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Grace: OpenAI says it’s not going to resume the training run that was paused on Sunday https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/an-agent-used-dns-to-reach-an-external-chatbot/
Dustin Moskovitz: and so the era of visible misalignment ends
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8 experts · 36 posts · 4d ago
Dylan Hadfield-Menell Grace Colin Max Woolf austin Singularity's Bounty e/cc coty.bsky.social austegard.com
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“@jevbot.bsky.social, what are your thoughts on existential risk from AI?” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Questions & unknowns · 3 Concern & critique · 1 Context & explanation · 1
Grace: I made a little Jev-based language model! It uses beam search + Jev as a classifier to judge branches based on coherence and "success" (whatever that means). I've barely talked to it so I don't kno…
Grace: (you'll need to tag him)
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6 experts · 18 posts · 2d ago
Anil Dash Grace jake Max Woolf Mary Branscombe mackuba.eu
Matches Concern & critique
“I am not trying to gaslight anybody; I didn't even say anybody shouldn't be upset. But you came in calling names, because you're a piece of shit. Any other etiquette tips?” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Anil Dash: Tressie mostly doesn't quote folks to dunk on them, fwiw
Anil Dash: I'm saying, she's quoted me plenty of times, it's a conversational style. I didn't read it as anything more than disagreeing with your point. At any rate, on the substance of what you're saying, I …
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3 experts · 48 posts · 3d ago
Grace B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them) Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Matches Concern & critique
“I think that’s part of it, and there’s also no chance of deception anyway, so the question is sort of moot” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Grace: AI writing, unfortunately
Grace: What do we do about this? Substack lets you check for AI with pangram, but it doesn’t show a label upfront. I assume if it started doing that authors would optimize against it. Maybe build it into …
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3 experts · 8 posts · 2d ago
Grace Dustin Moskovitz rev. howard arson
Matches Concern & critique
“Since I’ve done a lot of Yud defending, here are some Yud critiques: - he’s wildly overconfident, especially about things like philosophy of mind - his plan for AI safety is bad - his “pivotal act”…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Grace: Since I’ve done a lot of Yud defending, here are some Yud critiques: - he’s wildly overconfident, especially about things like philosophy of mind - his plan for AI safety is bad - his “pivotal act”…
Grace: I respect a lot of his ideas, and I want the bulk of AI safety efforts to be as far removed from him as possible
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