The Hugging Face Attack Was Worse than We Thought

Roundup #87: Technology BAD!!

Art by GPT-5.6Howdy, folks! Today’s roundup has fewer items than normal, because I wanted to write a bit more on each one. 1. Two lessons from the Hugging Face attackRecently, a bunch of AI agents from OpenAI got together and cooperated to hack the company Hugging Face, as well as hacking OpenAI itself. If you want an in-depth summary of the events, you can read OpenAI’s own report, or an independent report from METR and Redwood Research. But I …

The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought

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The Hugging Face incident is bad, really bad

Joshua Gans writes: In the whole, is AI good or bad, debate that has been raging for some years now, especially since Bostrom’s Superintelligence book, I have been on the optimistic side of that debate. Basically, if you asked me to bet, I was more in the Marc Andresson camp when he wrote: We believe any deceleration of AI will cost lives. Deaths that were preventable by the AI that was prevented from existing is a form of murder. There... Read …

Morning Brew Daily — OpenAI’s Hugging Face attack was crazier than we thought

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