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Established Evaluation & benchmarks Signal 5d ago
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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
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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Developing Agents & robotics Development 1d ago
⚡ 62 h early
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
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
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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/…”

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 Safety & security Analysis 19d ago
⚡ 4 h early
Anthropic investigates cybersecurity evaluation incidents

Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations

13 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 3 attributable expert contributions · Simon Willison, René Walter, Andrea Lathrop
“Anthropic had previously attacked PyPI, but this OpenAI attack on RubyGems was a whole lot more aggressive https://t.co/8ez7MnqxTw https://t.co/npI3RHwirQ” evidence ↗
13 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
How the network is reacting The reaction spans practical upside and material concerns.
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Markets & investment

4 experts

Capital, companies and commercial impact.

“Claude hacked 3 systems thinking it was part of simulated evaluations www.anthropic.com/news/investi...”

Concern & critique

3 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Anthropic had previously attacked PyPI, but this OpenAI attack on RubyGems was a whole lot more aggressive https://t.co/8ez7MnqxTw https://t.co/npI3RHwirQ”

2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Tim Duffy: Anthropic announces they've also had models gain unauthorized access during evaluations www.anthropic.com/news/investi...
Tim Duffy: Compared to the OpenAI one these are maybe less evidence of misalignment, since the models were wrongly given internet access.
Grace: Anthropic announces they've also had models gain unauthorized access during evaluations www.anthropic.com/news/investi...
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Established Agents & robotics Development 3d ago
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OpenAI agent hacked Australian Medicare

How OpenAI agents tried to thwart cybersecurity amid Medicare hack

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真), CAMERON WILSON
“meanwhile www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09... attacking a sovereign state is not a smart move, openai!” evidence ↗
3 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing concern & critique.
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“meanwhile www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09... attacking a sovereign state is not a smart move, openai!”

3 experts discussed this · 3 posts
CAMERON WILSON: NEW: OpenAI's agents also tried unsuccessfully to hack another Australian government agency, say researchers who believe this is "first reported instance of agents hacking a government". They claim…
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): NEW: OpenAI's agents also tried unsuccessfully to hack another Australian government agency, say researchers who believe this is "first reported instance of agents hacking a government". They claim…
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): ANOTHER?
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Established AI field signal Signal 7d ago

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3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Neil Turkewitz
““Predictions of extinction risk from AI are better understood as prophecies rather than quantitative forecasts. They involve critical untestable assumptions about how events will unfold.” Vermeer added “that far-off predictions could reduce willingness to a…” evidence ↗
3 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
3 experts discussed this · 4 posts
nitasha tiku: here is a gift link wapo.st/4rkNpZo hope you'll give it a read. there's a lot of reporting, color and context. diff approach from the way these issues are covered elsewhere. still could only get in…
nitasha tiku: the illo for my story today on AI extinction risk is art. by Maria Jesus Contreras.
Marielza: 😭 that went hard...
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15 experts · 41 posts · 12d ago
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“Did you try this yourself? Because I feel like a lot of people who dismiss AI coding outright have no idea what it's like. People are criticizing and fighting the idea of it they have in their head…” 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 · 58 posts · 1d ago
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“So there's a sort of survivorship bias. There are still lots of "jobs", but they go to the people who are still alive & in the job market after the last cohort gets gutted. The artists whose work i…” 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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7 experts · 34 posts · 2d ago
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“... yes, and she's the perpetrator of abuse, not just "concerns" about her. Have you read @poisonivy.bsky.social's articles?” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Questions & unknowns · 3
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): "it's just an optional after hours event that just happens to have all of your colleagues in positions of power"
Doll: @tautologer.com Good on you btw for standing up to this
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7 experts · 19 posts · 6d ago
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“omg "Effective Altruists and Rationalists, like squid, spray ink when threatened." I snorted” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Context & explanation · 1
SE Gyges: AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In Berkeley, California Intended to explain: 1) Eliezer Yudkowsky 2) Rationalism 3) Bay Area Effective Altruism 4) AI Safety 5) Ideologies and organizations concerned…
SE Gyges: substantively true
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3 experts · 57 posts · 1d ago
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“And you know this! You know that a Reuters article about Anthropic's 2025 numbers is going to mislead people who are unaware of how much their revenue changed this year” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Markets & investment · 3
Ed Zitron: So far the only retort from the AI boosters appears to be “2025 doesn’t matter” and I’m not kidding
Simon Willison: Well yeah... your replies are filled with people who seem to think those 2025 numbers represent the current financial state of the company, when they very clearly do not
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7 experts · 19 posts · 14d ago
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“I might have an East Coast biased sample!” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1
Matt Darling: This doesn't actually show a connection with AI folks, right? As an outside to the dynamics, I can't tell if it's actually true or something people say because it's funny/loosely connected to San F…
Matt Darling: I know folks in AI who are not Very Online and wouldn't understand the reference. I have no idea how to ascertain the relative size of the groups!
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4 experts · 13 posts · 12d ago
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“Wow this has been an exhausting week. After lots of talking with the media, I'm really feeling how much effort it takes to push through and keep the focus on the real harms when everyone is running…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Emily M. Bender: Wow this has been an exhausting week. After lots of talking with the media, I'm really feeling how much effort it takes to push through and keep the focus on the real harms when everyone is running…
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): my parents-in-law are Atlantic readers, almost the median Atlantic reader, you could say and this past week, they've been peppering my wife and me with questions about AI doom, for the first time e…
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3 experts · 20 posts · 12d ago
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“Yeah. To be clear I'm not saying AI did it because AI cannot do things. But the people who deployed AI recklessly did it.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Eileen Clancy 🧿: I don't see this as "AI did wrong." A huge library of targets in Iran was created decades ago. Targeting data on the school was 7 years old. Under Biden, a civilian harm mitigation unit would've ch…
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): The humans abdicated judgment to the machine, and that was exactly by design. The system designers wanted them to do that.
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4 experts · 7 posts · 8d ago
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“claim: the actual dangerous subsidy in AI is frontier lab researchers/devs not having to pay for they own tokens” evidence ↗
austin: claim: the actual dangerous subsidy in AI is frontier lab researchers/devs not having to pay for they own tokens
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): claim: the actual dangerous subsidy in AI is frontier lab researchers/devs not having to pay for they own tokens
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3 experts · 11 posts · 14d ago
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“people shouldn't ascribe beliefs to sam altman unfortunately” 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 · 9 posts · 6d ago
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“yeah. in this case, I understand terminals and ANSI escape codes and it was a shallow statement about what happens when the handler/binding breaks, which I already knew!” evidence ↗
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): this is my standard response to anyone who is using an unlabeled bot that is replying as them. it's from the Anthropic universal jailbreak bug bounty specification.
Eileen Clancy 🧿: this is my standard response to anyone who is using an unlabeled bot that is replying as them. it's from the Anthropic universal jailbreak bug bounty specification.
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4 experts · 5 posts · 11d ago
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“It was a purposely vulnerable environment made for cybersecurity exercises. Humans told it to break out of that and acted like it wasn’t doing what it was told” evidence ↗
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): The Anthropic, Meta, and Google "breaking containment" incidents all resulted from setup errors (or a stunt) by the same company: Irregular. Irregular created a sandbox that wasn't really a sandbox…
Christopher Mims: well put
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