METR (Model Evaluation & Threat Research) (Nonprofit)

September 3, 2026 Kevin Roose

Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I.

The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organize themselves.

How OpenAI Limited the Probe of Its Bots’ Hack of Hugging Face

A nonprofit’s study of how OpenAI’s A.I. agents were able to break into Hugging Face’s infrastructure wasn’t allowed to look at the incident’s full scope.