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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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Established Evaluation & benchmarks Signal 4d ago
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Hugging face model evaluation security incident

23 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Jeffrey P. Bigham
“model capability jaggedness is part of the unintuitiveness of current AI, but it's made even less intuitive by tirelessness… wigguming through the jaggedness toward something that looks like success. not quite a paperclip factory, but not so far off. metaph…” 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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Primary source openai.com ↗
New Agents & robotics Development 11h 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 Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Alejandra Caraballo
“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...” 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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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…”

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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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Developing Compute & infrastructure Signal 2d ago
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Claude computes a nine-loop amplitude in N=4 super-Yang-Mills

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Kyle Cranmer
“Link again. www.anthropic.com/research/yes...” evidence ↗
4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Kyle Cranmer Gilles Louppe Ethan Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)

“Link again. www.anthropic.com/research/yes...”

2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Kyle Cranmer: I’m still processing, but not entirely surprised. I do I wish we had the time in the resources to commit to it.
Kyle Cranmer: Wow, I just found out that our team has been scooped by Anthropic www.anthropic.com/research/yes... See the addendum of the post “How does it feel to be scooped by a machine?” written by my collabo…
tachikoma: that link seems broken
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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
Matches Research & technical analysis
“You released a surprise project that spread a lot of joy and humor, and people drag you for HOW you made it? There are conversations that are needed about appropriate AI usage, and finding the bala…” 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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“you are aware of the fact that US unemployment measurement removes you from the list if you give up on seeking work for 4 weeks right? labor force participation rate is probably the better metric t…” 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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3 experts · 57 posts · 18h ago
Simon Willison Ed Zitron Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)
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“They're rumored to make a healthy margin on inference - so the more tokens they can sell the better Especially since corporate clients can't sign up for the $100 or $200/month subscription plans - …” 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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4 experts · 30 posts · 15d ago
SE Gyges Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Mary Branscombe Isaiah Bishop
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“most fucked up horseshoe theory instance i have had the misfortune of finding myself in” 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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4 experts · 13 posts · 11d ago
Emily M. Bender Kate Devlin Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Veni Kunche
Matches Research & technical analysis
“We're doing some stuff on framing as part of a research project — workshop at some point, possibly January, if you're interested?” 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 · 7 posts · 13d ago
Nick Seaver Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Colin
Matches Research & technical analysis
“I mean that's just normal. You check things and make sure they're correct and have experts review them and so on. You edit, you extend, you simplify. It's research. Solving the N-S conjecture on Su…” evidence ↗
Colin: I mean that's just normal. You check things and make sure they're correct and have experts review them and so on. You edit, you extend, you simplify. It's research. Solving the N-S conjecture on Su…
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): I mean that's just normal. You check things and make sure they're correct and have experts review them and so on. You edit, you extend, you simplify. It's research. Solving the N-S conjecture on Su…
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3 experts · 4 posts · 8d ago
Eli Sennesh Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Doll
Matches Research & technical analysis
“cherry-picking evidence to support their priors is kind of their thing. see: referring to the METR study about OSS dev work giving the illusion of productivity from *two years ago* and not any of t…” evidence ↗
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): cherry-picking evidence to support their priors is kind of their thing. see: referring to the METR study about OSS dev work giving the illusion of productivity from *two years ago* and not any of t…
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): I still *regularly* get asked "well how do you know it's not just making you _feel_ more productive" mate, I have 20 years of experience, I know how to task estimate, and also to know when somethin…
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2 experts · 4 posts · 19d ago
Eileen Clancy 🧿 Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)
Matches Research & technical analysis
“geez, the pettiness of not allowing the Anthropic mathematician to appear on the paper if the OpenAI proposal were accepted” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Eileen Clancy 🧿: OpenAI's attempt to snatch away from human mathematicians the honor of solving a key mathematical problem. Sébastien Bubeck (OpenAI) asked Tristan Buckmaster (NYU), "Why would you ruin your career?…
Eileen Clancy 🧿: The comments are full of (mostly) thoughtful folks. Like: "The biggest problem here is people affiliated with the 'Big 2' going mano a mano against experts in this field and ... threatening their a…
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