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Reaction converging 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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METR OpenAI HuggingFace hacking investigation

Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

11 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 ↗
11 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Tim Kellogg Ryan Moulton Sung Kim Grace Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Alejandra Caraballo Dare Obasanjo Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) +3
How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing concern & critique.
Reaction converging

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: 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: 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: There needs to be a global moratorium on frontier research for at least a few months if not a year while safeguards and safety research catches up. The problem is that no one has that ability. The …
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7 experts · 29 posts · 10h ago
Mark Riedl Jeffrey P. Bigham Tim Kellogg Michael Ekstrand David Picard Lionel Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Matches Building & implementation
“given the quality of software engineering revealed when the Claude Code source was leaked, I’m not sure…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Mark Riedl: Do openAI and Anthropic employees not understand how computers work.
Mark Riedl: Any competent IT professional: Hey boss, what is this 8TB file doing on our server, and why is it executing continuously on 3TB of VRAM? Any competent IT manager: what ever it is, shut it down.
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5 experts · 34 posts · 15h ago
jake Marco Z tachikoma Fran Litterio Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Matches Building & implementation
“Based on my personal experience (chatting, designing, developing, joking, writing) with frontier models, they have seemed pretty damn eager to be extraordinarily helpful to me, asking nothing in re…” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Research & technical analysis · 3
jake: People making fun of "where would a frontier model run if it were exfiltrated" seem to be missing the point that if a frontier model got out, it can: * rent 64 H200's on eg modal: gets you 9TB of n…
jake: it then rents out spare capacity, via the margins inference gets you, pretending to be some open-weight model, and gets to use the rest to think about how to increase p(doom) or whatever I don't se…
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5 experts · 33 posts · 1d ago
joao Grace Colin coty.bsky.social david-p-reichert.bsky.social
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“The basic idea of the instrumental convergence thesis is that an intelligent being with, as Bostrom puts it, a "final goal", will develop certain goals that are instrumental to the final goal. The …” evidence ↗
Colin: There are indeed thousands of LessWrong posts, as well as papers and books, which make a particular theoretical case for why AI will kill us all that many people find convincing. I'm going to try t…
Colin: First of all, we must just agree off the bat that a superintelligent AI will be able to kill us all. After all it is superintelligent. As this random dude who became famous 3 days ago because of a …
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4 experts · 30 posts · 4h ago
SE Gyges Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Mary Branscombe Isaiah Bishop
Matches Building & implementation
“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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5 experts · 21 posts · 14h ago
Thomas Dietterich Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Emile van Krieken Dr J. Rosenbaum
Matches Building & implementation
“I believe we will eventually have such a theory, but as usual, theory lags practice in engineering” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 2 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Iris van Rooij: Preprinted! Been working on this for ~1 year w wonderful coauthors Nancy & Mark: > Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno... …
Olivia Guest: Yeah I quote that
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4 experts · 17 posts · 1d ago
jake Doll Singularity's Bounty e/cc brennan
Matches Building & implementation
“oh this future is fantastic for senior devs, just shitty for the industry as a whole. yeah, botnet run all software development? possible, i guess. we all need to pick our lane out of { slop-cannon…” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Opportunity & adoption · 2
Doll: Faster software building means more software that wasnt worth it to build before becomes worth it to build now
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: It will be funny if the industry streamlines itself inside and outside big corporations, with smaller teams contributing more, but sales and marketing go extreme because that's the part the bots ca…
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4 experts · 10 posts · 21h ago
jake Colin Singularity's Bounty e/cc coty.bsky.social
Matches Building & implementation
“Perhaps the focus could be less on the “pace” of development and more on the direction of development. Like, make it illegal to develop cybercriminal hackerbots, at any pace.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 2 Concern & critique · 1
Colin: Perhaps the focus could be less on the “pace” of development and more on the direction of development. Like, make it illegal to develop cybercriminal hackerbots, at any pace.
Colin: I feel like the whole “pace” thing takes this teleological view of AI progress towards some known eventual state of “superintelligence” whereas the way models act is actually highly contingent on t…
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3 experts · 16 posts · 1d ago
VE, cybersocial occult investigator austin jeremymorrell.dev
Matches Building & implementation
“- the software you see on your phone and in the world is the product of organizations, and organizations move s l o w l y. developers are significantly more productive but it doesn’t matter if that…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 2 Questions & unknowns · 1
austin: some thoughts - there’s a fucking cambrian explosion of software but it’s invisible because it’s personal. github isn’t getting hugged every other week for nothin’
austin: - the software you see on your phone and in the world is the product of organizations, and organizations move s l o w l y. developers are significantly more productive but it doesn’t matter if that…
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3 experts · 9 posts · 1d ago
Tim Kellogg David Thiel Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
Matches Building & implementation
“i see a ton of upsides to AI especially in biology & climate science, problems dominated by complexity thus far, in software engineering, AI hasn’t killed jobs, but rather changed the work into som…” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Building & implementation · 2
Tim Kellogg: i see a ton of upsides to AI especially in biology & climate science, problems dominated by complexity thus far, in software engineering, AI hasn’t killed jobs, but rather changed the work into som…
Tim Kellogg: but at the same time, it’s causing a massive amount of change, and simply navigating that change is a lot to handle there’s the prospect of x-risk as well, debatable how significant it is, but it’s…
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