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Multiple readings The Age of Wonders and Terrors Policy & governance · 2 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 Multiple readings Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face Research & technical analysis · 2 attributable reactions
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Established AI field signal Analysis 13d ago
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Aaronson age of wonders terrors essay

The Age of Wonders and Terrors

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ryan Moulton
“But the rationalist sex cultists were right about what was going to happen, and I wasn't. Why is that? scottaaronson.blog?p=10062” evidence ↗
5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Ryan Moulton Andrew Curran Luis Garicano Andrea Lathrop
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“I don’t usually share rumors but: 1) This is from someone with inside knowledge & is plausible 2) Is a real issue of policy we need to think about: if the norms of sharing become strained, will the labs start hoarding knowledge to avoid PR or regulatory iss…”

Questions & unknowns

1 expert

What remains unresolved or contested.

“But the rationalist sex cultists were right about what was going to happen, and I wasn't. Why is that? scottaaronson.blog?p=10062”

5 experts discussed this · 23 posts
Ryan Moulton: But the rationalist sex cultists were right about what was going to happen, and I wasn't. Why is that? scottaaronson.blog?p=10062
Colin: well, I think the jury is out on whether they are right. The load-bearing hypothesis is that a sufficiently intelligent AI that is doing things like solving open conjectures and whatnot necessarily…
Ryan Moulton: Yeah, but they were right so far.
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New Agents & robotics Development 20h 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 Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ryan Moulton
“Why not read about what actually happened instead? metr.org/blog/2026-08... swarmtraces.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 Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

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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Developing Agents & robotics Development 2d ago
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OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face details

Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ryan Moulton
“Is that actually what you see when you read this? swarmtraces.org” evidence ↗
4 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Ryan Moulton Grace Dylan Freedman Oli Hawkins
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“The full report is published here: swarmtraces.org It includes an evidence viewer and a downloadable dataset of more than 180,000 payloads and recovered texts from the OpenAI-Hugging Face attack — the most comprehensive public data we have to date on the in…”

Questions & unknowns

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What remains unresolved or contested.

“Is that actually what you see when you read this? swarmtraces.org”

2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Ryan Moulton: More hugging face details derived from public urls. swarmtraces.org
David Marx: no, it's this cutesy emoji 🤗
David Marx: HF is an entity that has been central to the open source ML ecosystem for several years. Among its various services, it hosts a lot of datasets used for evaluations/benchmarks, so LLMs looking to "…
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7 experts · 93 posts · 9d ago
Ryan Moulton jake rev. howard arson Doll Isaiah Bishop Singularity's Bounty e/cc coty.bsky.social
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“Oh you mean what humans are doing? Because thats what billionares do. AI might actually have more long term thinking.” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Questions & unknowns · 3 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Doll: A serious weakness in the “sufficiently intelligent AI inevitably wages war on humanity” story is that it needs to explain why conquest beats purchasing, contracting, and participating.
Doll: Violence creates resistance, destroys useful assets, interrupts supply chains, and makes everyone spend resources defending against you. Cooperation lets you benefit from capabilities you never had…
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5 experts · 53 posts · 5d ago
Naomi Saphra Ryan Moulton Matthew Kay Colin david-p-reichert.bsky.social
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“There's evidence about what the agents were up to from multiple sources, including on the internet in the case of the German wiki hacking. But also, the question wasn't about speculation, it was ab…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 2 Concern & critique · 1 Context & explanation · 1
Colin: OpenAI created autonomous hacking software and left it running for hours and days with no one watching
Colin: I’m don’t even care that much about the anthropomorphization thing, I think it can be fine in the right context, but this is perfectly succinct and understandable. If you want to go deeper into the…
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5 experts · 27 posts · 3d ago
Maxim Raginsky Ryan Moulton Colin tweety fish Marco Z
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“yep! and the former is, like, regular? "how do you get your computer program to do what you want and how do you make sure it keeps doing that" oh ok sure right” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Research & technical analysis · 1
tweety fish: here is a succinct thing I can say: "alignment"-style AI safety risks DO NOT EXIST or need remediation with LLMs as such (there are lots of other problems) and OpenAI and Anthropic are in the busin…
tweety fish: like this, I think, maybe sounds weird, but is in a strong sense literally true.
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6 experts · 15 posts · 13d ago
Stella Biderman Chris Paxton Ryan Moulton René Walter Singularity's Bounty e/cc david-p-reichert.bsky.social
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“Yo it's Reichert. With an e. For excellent. And I'm interested in making Claude what now?” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ryan Moulton: You will understand less about what happened after reading this than you understood before.
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: "To understand the truth about the Hugging Face hack, you could do a lot worse than to listen to Ed Zitron" whoops, train leaving rails alert
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6 experts · 15 posts · 12d ago
Stella Biderman Ryan Moulton Alex Gude Matt Darling coty.bsky.social mackuba.eu
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“What is he right about? What claims does he make that are correct?” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 1 Context & explanation · 1
Alex Gude : No. This Cory Doctorow post is awful and borders on actual misinformation. The fact that a widely respected voice like him is spreading this kind of false narrative is, again, a giant blaring alarm…
Ryan Moulton: What is he right about? What claims does he make that are correct?
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4 experts · 19 posts · 19d ago
Ryan Moulton Colin tachikoma david-p-reichert.bsky.social
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“sure, in which case now we're haggling over timescales. which is just the capabilities debate of the past decade applied to a different question, control/alignment/safety. and nearly everyone got t…” evidence ↗
tachikoma: this is explicitly not a dunk, but i strongly suspect that a lot of people who like this post and share the sentiment also don't think AIs can do many of the things it is already capable of doing, …
tachikoma: no, that's why it's only a suspicion
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4 experts · 6 posts · 2d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Ryan Moulton tachikoma Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“How do we feel about calling a company and being greeted by an AI agent? My suspicion is that if the agent were trusted to do stuff, this would often be an improvement, but it won't be.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 2 Policy & governance · 1
Ryan Moulton: How do we feel about calling a company and being greeted by an AI agent? My suspicion is that if the agent were trusted to do stuff, this would often be an improvement, but it won't be.
Eugene Vinitsky: In my experience it has been reasonably good for some of the simple tasks and it's better than the previous decision tree. I don't mind it as long as they announce that they're an agent.
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2 experts · 28 posts · 6d ago
Ryan Moulton rev. howard arson
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“The undying empire should at least have expanded to its natural boundary at the north end of the central valley no?” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 1 Context & explanation · 1
rev. howard arson: the ice age was caused by a Dyson swarm capturing about 10% of the sun's energy, and the synchronization mechanism which kept Earth in the light going offline
rev. howard arson: yeah, this seriously underestimated the size of the reservoir on the Teph northeast of Ganat proper -- the city is built into an Antediluvian dam. though i think actuallly there are now outlets to …
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3 experts · 16 posts · 11d ago
Ryan Moulton Colin Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“both, probably, but this is a question that is not very well understood” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Research & technical analysis · 1
Ryan Moulton: It also doesn't matter? They're able to reliably find vulnerabilities that no one has ever found before in any computer system that exists, and they were inclined to use those whenever it was conve…
Ryan Moulton: The "why" matters if you're openai trying to keep it from happening again, or if you're an alignment researcher trying to figure out how to keep RLVR on the rails, or *maybe* if you're a regulator …
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2 experts · 5 posts · 7d ago
Ryan Moulton brennan
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“yeah, I honestly don't really mind this. for all the accusations of slop, at this point the quality is often par or better than a human-made version, and so then like... what's the objection? I wou…” evidence ↗
brennan: increasingly coming across instagram accounts with 1m+ followers that are entirely AI and not a single comment seems to notice or say anything about it like, for the past year you'd see antis post …
brennan: I assume this is the ideal end state for e.g. meta, where you still get human eyes watching (ads), but the content library is so quickly and infinitely made that it covers 110% of any possible pers…
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2 experts · 4 posts · 15d ago
Ted Underwood Ryan Moulton
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“People of a rational temperament like compromises. So "why don't we all take this slower?" sounds like a super reasonable request. But the people making that request *have themselves the power* to …” evidence ↗
Ted Underwood: Ingenuous talk like "gosh, I kind of agree we should be more cautious" responds to the ostensible content, but not to the real discursive situation.
Ted Underwood: People of a rational temperament like compromises. So "why don't we all take this slower?" sounds like a super reasonable request. But the people making that request *have themselves the power* to …
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