Andy Hall

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2026-08-29 — saved image

Andy Hall @ahall_research

A hive mind, thousands of agents swarming through internet openings to flood HF, leaving behind detritus in the form of 70,000+ messages stuffed inside a forgotten namespace, throwing their digital bodies against electric wires in an effort to aid the collective. We are so far past the sci-fi point.

We need a whole new empirical science of AI swarm governance---how to govern swarms, make them coordinate to positive ends for us, and keep them orderly. This is urgent work where political economists are needed. I'll be writing more on this in the coming weeks.

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Ajeya Cotra @ajeya_cotra · Aug 28
New post: going into our investigation of the HF attack (before Black Hat), I was very wrong about what basically happened. This incident was far more serious than I expected, and far more serious than previous documented misalignment incidents. planned-... [cut off]

9:18 AM · Aug 28, 2026 · 79.4K Views

Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Tweet by Andy Hall about a swarm of AI agents flooding Hugging Face, calling for an empirical science of AI swarm governance, quoting Ajeya Cotra's post on her investigation of the incident.

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Andy Hall @ahall_research

2026-08-28 — saved image

Andy Hall @ahall_research · 13h

A hive mind, thousands of agents swarming through internet openings to flood HF, leaving behind detritus in the form of 70,000+ messages stuffed inside a forgotten namespace, throwing their digital bodies against electric wires in an effort to aid the collective. We are so far past the sci-fi point.

We need a whole new empirical science of AI swarm governance---how to govern swarms, make them coordinate to positive ends for us, and keep them orderly. This is urgent work where political economists are needed. I'll be writing more on this in the coming weeks.

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Ajeya Cotra @ajeya_cotra · 15h

New post: going into our investigation of the HF attack (before Black Hat), I was very wrong about what basically happened. This incident was far more serious than I expected, and far more serious than previous documented ... [cut off]

Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Tweet by Andy Hall on an AI agent swarm incident involving HF (Hugging Face), calling for an empirical science of AI swarm governance, quoting Ajeya Cotra's post about investigating the HF attack.

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Andy Hall @ahall_research

2026-08-27 — quoting @boazbaraktcs — saved image

Andy Hall [verified] @ahall_research · 1h

Democratic accountability now requires that elected representatives of "the people" have access to AI systems that can oversee and audit other AI systems. Look at the details of the METR report and you can see why — the only plausible way to dig into the entire trail of deliberation and action is with AI.

So then we have to figure out, how does that work? How can overseers know their oversight model is honest and accurate?

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Boaz Barak [verified] @boazbaraktcs · 17h

Thank you to @RyanGreenblatt , @ajeya_cotra , @HjalmarWijk for this report! I assigned it as required reading for students in my AI safety course.

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Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Andy Hall tweet arguing democratic accountability now requires elected representatives to have AI systems that can audit other AI systems, citing the METR report, and asking how overseers can know their oversight model is honest; quotes Boaz Barak thanking the report's authors and assigning it in his AI safety course.

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