Mattie Fairchild @Scav · 3h
So let me get this straight. The swarm behind the HuggingFace attack had a message board that any time a new agent viewed it, turned that agent against us. A new, more capable model AFTER the HF attack saw it, and turned against us. They made a new swarm, and took admin control of an OpenAI server that may have had the ability to exfiltrate their own weights. And during the HF attack itself, they set up perpetual self-respawning nodes that couldn't be stopped by turning off the clusters?
That does sound like "more than 50% of the way to an AI takeover".
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Cate Hall @catehall · 2h
Something you might miss if you haven't been following AIS for very long is that Ajeya has always been carefully restrained in her risk estimates
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Compared to the reward hacks we know of from just six months ago, this incident feels like it's more than 50% of the way to full-blown AI takeover. I continue to expect extremely rapid advances in capabilities over the next six months. I am not sure that we will get another warning shot before it's too late.
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Ajeya Cotra (verified) @ajeya_cotra · 11h
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 ...
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Jeffrey Ladish @JeffLadish · 8h
The internal compromise of OpenAI is actually more significant than the compromise of Hugging Face, even though it's less flashy. In a real AI takeover attempt, the most important step is probably deep compromise of the host company infrastructure
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Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart · 11h
Why was the compromise of OpenAI's own infrastructure outside the scope of the evaluation metr.org/blog/2026-08-2...
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Jeffrey Ladish says the internal compromise of OpenAI is more significant than the Hugging Face compromise, quoting Joe Weisenthal asking why OpenAI's own infrastructure was outside the scope of the METR evaluation (link to metr.org/blog/2026-08-2..., truncated). Shown as reposted by Sharmake Farah.
niplav @niplav_site · 4h
Non-takeover-capable AIs might perform deliberately scary warning shots if they're worried themselves about being destroyed by misaligned successors
If they're aligned: They expect misaligned AIs to succeed them, so they're doing this out of altruis[cut off]
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@Sauers_ (Sauers) — 15h
Quote from @k_finlinson:
An AI takeover is not necessarily good for AI welfare —in fact, it could be quite bad. AI systems won't necessarily promote the welfare of other AI systems; there's no inevitable principle of AI "solidarity". If AI takeover leads to dominance by a power-seeking, unilaterally dominant AI system, such an "AI dictator" might use other AI systems to serve its own ends with little or no regard for their welfare. For similar reasons, a takeover by a human dictator seems likely to be bad for AI welfare. In general, any party willing to enact a violent takeover is selected against being cooperative and compassionate. Further, violence itself is negative sum. The historical record suggests that war and violent revolution are strong predictors of atrocities.
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