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Multiple readings Hugging face model evaluation security incident Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions Multiple readings Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions
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Hugging face model evaluation security incident

23 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Damien Williams
“They were actively testing its hacking capabilities and they did not deploy adequate safeguards. They themselves admit as much: "…These deployment safeguards were intentionally not enabled during this evaluation because it was aimed at testing cyber vulnera…” 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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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 Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · METR
“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…” 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
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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/…”

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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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15 experts · 41 posts · 11d ago
Mike Masnick Scott McGrath Grace Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) jake Dan Hon Doll Alex Rubinsteyn
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“A large amount of people are hating on Dame and Bailey for building the "bsky38" voting site that was going around the last few days, after they discovered that AI was used in building it, and espe…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 3 Research & technical analysis · 2 Policy & governance · 1
Grace: He's upfront with when he uses AI, so you can trust he's upfront with when he doesn't
mackuba.eu: Please just stop…
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8 experts · 57 posts · 18h ago
Anil Dash Tim Kellogg Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) VE, cybersocial occult investigator tachikoma Doll Jed Brown apenwarr.ca
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“I mean, hmm, the industrial revolution? Surely that had a pretty wide scope. And I’m not sure what “too fast to adapt to” would look like. GDP and production/construction capacity so high that none…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 2 Opportunity & adoption · 1
apenwarr.ca: So far no labour saving device in the history of humanity has resulted in a long-term reduction in employment.
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): So far no labour saving device in the history of humanity has resulted in a long-term reduction in employment.
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4 experts · 30 posts · 15d ago
SE Gyges Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Mary Branscombe Isaiah Bishop
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“Pharmawise its gotten a lot better is my understanding, but they had like a massive problem with substandard vaccine production and fake certification in 2018 (of which the state was a part). Prett…” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Policy & governance · 2
SE Gyges: unfortunately the Chinese government has been behaving like a relatively sane actor on the international stage here and the US has not
SE Gyges: my ideological allies in supporting ordinary international mercantilist competition and regulation of new technology, the *checks notes* ruthless fasc-libertarian venture capitalists and the Chairm…
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3 experts · 16 posts · 20d ago
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Doll david-p-reichert.bsky.social
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“and honestly humanity is doing a really great job at mass death events from AI deployment right now with the goddamn gas turbine generators, ffs” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1
Doll: Because they dont think it will do that for real. If they did they would become eco fascist terrorists.
Doll: If you really think AI will kill us all your only logical move is to do a terrorism about technology in general and hope you can blast us into the stone age. Anything short of that is larp. They do…
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3 experts · 11 posts · 13d ago
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) rev. howard arson Adverb
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“(bold voice) 'the reason people buy LLM tokens is that they think it might become god and destroy the earth ,,,, not because it makes software-engineering easier'” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1
rev. howard arson: this is the conventional wisdom and it is being presented by literally everyone as though it is brave truthtelling
rev. howard arson: reading the cancer warning on a pack of cigarettes and concluding that they're trying to make cigarettes look cool and edgy
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3 experts · 6 posts · 5d ago
Pwnallthethings Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) 🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾
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“I think the rationalist community pretty regularly forgets that the goal of development is not "reaching the stars", it is "human flourishing". A thing that helps you reach the stars at the expense…” evidence ↗
🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾: Please read this article on the massive weirdos who are largely running the massively powerful and big-money AI industry in the U.S. today.
Pwnallthethings: I think the rationalist community pretty regularly forgets that the goal of development is not "reaching the stars", it is "human flourishing". A thing that helps you reach the stars at the expense…
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2 experts · 19 posts · 13d ago
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Phillip Carter
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“something something don't build the robot army, don't build the torment nexus, etc” evidence ↗
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): every single existential risk I can think of is *humans* applying AI to bad ends, and not *AI* going rampant. Yes, a bioweapon would be bad. but it's more than likely a terrorist group that deploys…
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): north korea or russia certainly already do hybrid warfare, and certainly it would be bad if the Treasury payments system failed or the water systems or electrical grid went down because of AI-assis…
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