METR OpenAI HuggingFace hacking investigation
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“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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“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...”
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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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“you know it's going great when even INC., basically pseudo-journalistic fan-fiction for MBAs, starts ragging on your shiny new product”
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8h ago
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“I wrote a new piece yesterday, called "Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob", about my escalating rage at AI-generated text. It includes a framework for thinking about when AI involvement is fine -- just another tool -- and when it lands as a violation. …”
“This. Every word, of this. @charity.wtf - Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob charity.wtf/p/confession...”
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charity.wtf: I wrote a new piece yesterday, called "Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob", about my escalating rage at AI-generated text. It includes a framework for thinking about when AI involvement is fin…
charity.wtf: Because the internet is a hive mind, I have already seen two more excellent pieces today on similar themes. The first is from @terriblesoftware.org, who makes a similar point: "I have my own Claude…
charity.wtf: He also points out that adapting to these tools means we must be MUCH more explicit about what we want & expect. The topic of respecting each other's time (and handling mismatched expectations) is …
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Anthropic reaches 65B revenue run rate
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“CNBC coverage, they used the warlock casting a spell picture again. https://t.co/eQureNVSqN”
AI influence level framework v1.0
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“This thread was made with AI and is AIL-2: danielmiessler.com/blog/ai-infl...”
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ChatGPT aided Tumbler Ridge shooter bypass
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“yeah tumbler ridge was baaaaaad. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...”
“"B.C. attorney general shocked by news report that ChatGPT told Tumbler Ridge shooter how to avoid safeguards" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...”
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“proof it's officially licenced: x.com/Kimi_Moonsho... www.scmp.com/tech/tech-tr...”
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Kimi Moonshot AI announcement post
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“proof it's officially licenced: x.com/Kimi_Moonsho... www.scmp.com/tech/tech-tr...”
23 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“2 articles: OpenAI: "During testing our AI broke out of its sandbox and hacked another AI company, but we didn't have all the guardrails on." Boko Haram: "AI is so helpful; guardrails have never prevented us from getting an answer." openai.com/index/huggin.…”
Building & implementation
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“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…”
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“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…”
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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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AI gym booking security exposure
12 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.
12 experts
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Concern & critique
3 experts
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“A lot of people are sweating the Claude and OpenAI sandbox escapes. I think the story of an OpenClaw Claude agent kicking someone off a gym class waitlist is more interesting. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08... Warning: long thread incoming! (1/N)”
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“agent asked to book a gym session session is fully booked finds a way to break into system kicks other people off the queue you're in! see you in court? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...”
Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“They're doing it outside of training and eval too. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...”
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Dugan Nash X post
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6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“An AI house with a *dark side*? Well, I never! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/t...”
“To the sociology PhD student who is inevitably doing their ethnography embedded in this insane community: I really look forward to reading your future book.”
4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“Link again. www.anthropic.com/research/yes...”
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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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sex AI apocalypse essay
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“Och orkar man inte läsa en hel bok så kan man läsa även här: www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...”
“nope! bsky.app/profile/fain... www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...”
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): www.iankduncan.com/personal/202.... "In 2021, Salamon acknowledged that >=3 employees had [...] been compelled to undergo “debugging,” [...] intervention in a person’s own psychology [with] excessi…
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): Right, "debugging", yes, that was the term, that's crystallising the memory I have of how even members of rationalist group houses thought CFAR had gone off the rails by 2022, and specifically I wa…
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): I had the vague recollection, but seeing it written down in the org's own words certainly is something.
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OpenAI agent hacked Australian Medicare
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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!”
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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…
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6d ago
3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
““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…”
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“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 into about 2%”
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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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