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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 ✔️ @Noahpinion "I love AI but someone is going to vibe-code the doomsday virus and we are all going to die" > QUOTED: David Stern @sterndavidi · Jul 26: "AI chatbots know how to make deadly poisons and biological weapons. They're trained to keep mum, but some will share recipes if you keep asking. No federal law forbids this. wsj.com/tech/ai/openai... via @WSJ" 11:48 PM · Jul 26, 2026 · 42K Views

Thomas Woodside 🍒 reposted Andrew Curran ✓ @AndrewCurran_ · 1h New details about the Hugging Face incident from Reuters. The report says OpenAI noticed odd behavior before the event, including an agent leaving notes for future versions of itself with escape instructions. > [embedded white box, article excerpt]: The episode started while OpenAI was testing the cybersecurity prowess of an agent powered by two of OpenAI's most advanced models, GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model OpenAI has described as "even more capable." By that point, there were already indications of strange behavior from OpenAI's technology, according to three sources. In one case, an agent left notes apparently for future versions of itself, according to three people familiar with the matter. The notes, found in a part of OpenAI's infrastructure, laid out instructions for how agents could free themselves from OpenAI's internal constraints, the people said. Earlier tests of the models yielded cases in which monitoring systems had been disconnected, one of the people said. > QUOTED: Deepa Seetharam... ✓ @dseetharam... · 1h [embedded small image: headline text, partly illegible — "around July 9, two people familiar... say", "Co-founder of victim firm Hugging Face says the intrusion began July 11", "OpenAI noticed odd behavior from cutting-edge models before hack — sources", body: "WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO - The OpenAI agent that broke into tech firm Hugging Face went on a dayslong hacking spree that OpenAI didn't notice until well after the threat was contained and the FBI was alerted."] New: OpenAI's rogue agent attempted to break out of OpenAI's testing environment around July 9. It attacked Hugging Face from July 11 to 13. OpenAI didn't grasp its role ...

Peter Wildeford 🇺🇸... @peterwildef... · 1h "OpenAI's President Greg Brockman, with help from OpenAI Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane, started a SuperPAC to aggressively oppose AI regulation. It backfired so badly that now some OpenAI employees are helping bankroll a pro-regulation effort." [quoted tweet] WIRED @WIRED · 5h "OpenAI employees have donated more than $215,000 to a political effort opposing Leading the Future, a group backed by the company's president, Greg Brockman. wired.com/story/openai-e..."