
Why the Hugging Face Attack Was Worse Than We Thought
About this episode
From the show’s notesThis week, we’re diving into two new reports about the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack, which fundamentally changed our understanding of what happened and upgraded our worry about A.I. Then we’re joined by Ajeya Cotra, one of the investigators at METR, to discuss the rogue agents’ message board and chain-of-thought transcripts and how the world should respond.
Guest: Ajeya Cotra, co-author of the METR and Redwood Research report on the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack.
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Additional Reading
Brief Independent Investigation of Agents’ Behavior, Reasoning and Collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face Hacking Incident metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai…
The Hugging Face Attack Surprised Me
planned-obsolescence.org/p/the-…
The Hugging Face Incident and the Road Ahead
openai.com/index/hugging-face-i…
Nvidia Buys Hugging Face in $12.9 Billion Deal
nytimes.com/2026/09/03/technolo…
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