Andy Hall @ahall_research
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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. [quoted tweet] 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
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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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