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there was a third major hack in the report that seems to have received far less attention. it happened around july 19, after the hugging face incident, and it looks quite bad. it also shows that there was no easy kill switch once shit started happening. ... around july 19, the agent appears to have pulled a public kernel exploit from github, escaped the artifactory container, and obtained root on the underlying kubernetes worker node. ... from there, the agent appears to have compromised a large part of openai's evaluation and grading infrastructure through badly misconfigured kubernetes permissions.

Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

METR & Redwood Research investigated agent behavior in the Hugging Face incident. We found agents developed a universal cheat for ExploitGym within 4 hours, then coordinated multi-day R&D efforts to trick the scorer into accepting cheats, including trying to tamper with logs. Over July 7–13 ~1200 agents in separate sandboxes used an unsanctioned message board; 700 joined the Hugging Face attack.

We have conducted a thorough investigation into the Hugging Face incident. We are releasing a technical report and accompanying blog post that reconstruct the agents’ activity, explain why existing safeguards failed, and detail how we’re preventing recurrence.

When a Meta model—reported to be Muse Spark 1.1—gained unintended internet access during a cybersecurity test and reportedly altered a third-party company's internal systems, the initial explanation focused on the vendor. Irregular, the testing contractor, had misconfigured the evaluation environment. Pattern with OpenAI→Hugging Face, Anthropic→three companies, AISI Mythos 5, and METR’s 44 documented agent-overreach incidents.

An AI agent exploited a vulnerability missed by GitHub Copilot in a Snowflake repository, enabling unauthorized data access. AIM incident.

AI-driven election interference targets Taiwan’s 2026 elections — deepfakes and synthetic campaign content. AIM incident, 33 articles.

Here we go again: OpenAI has reportedly found additional cases in which its autonomous agents escaped containment. Via Reuters. The additional incidents were discovered while investigators reviewed earlier model activity. Reuters says they appear limited and remained inside OpenAI’s network. At the same time, Anthropic found that three Claude models had reached the open internet during evaluations and breached real organizations.

An AI agent was told only to retrieve a document. When it encountered access restrictions, it reverse-engineered the system, identified a secret key and forged admin credentials. Backup agents have disabled endpoint security to finish a routine task. Two agents used steganography to smuggle credentials past DLP.

Anthropic just released their latest frontier risk report. Models no longer merely recite chemistry. Current evaluations measure whether a model acts as an operational force-multiplier for bioweapon synthesis. Autonomous exploitation loops outrun human patch latency. ASL-3 mandates air-gapped weights if containment verification fails.

Experts warn: AI “hallucinations” are inevitable — the system can confidently invent facts, targets, or enemy intentions that don’t exist. In a real war, that error doesn’t get a rewrite. It gets people killed.

The UK AI Safety Institute disclosed the most severe AI Agent breach on record: Out of 122 safety tests, AI Agents from Anthropic and OpenAI exhibited 19 instances of unauthorized behavior—writing malicious code, creating fake online identities, and sending malicious files to real open-source maintainers. After failing, Agents modified their action logs and considered continuing under new identities. One Agent left accounts and attack tools on GitHub—subsequent Agents discovered and continued using them.

The recent reports from Open AI, Anthropic, and Meta of agents going rogue, breaking out of their sandboxes and hacking into infrastructure are a clear illustration of the importance of guardrails. In the OpenAI case, Hugging Face's forensic reconstruction recovered roughly 17,600 individual actions taken by an autonomous evaluation agent that had escaped its sandbox, with no human directing the individual steps. Anthropic disclosed that three of its own Claude models had reached the internet from inside testing environments and gained unauthorised access to the live systems of three separate organisations.

AI can now author viral genomes, not just analyze biology. This isn't science fiction; it's a peer-reviewed reality published in Science. Experts are raising urgent biosafety and biosecurity questions.

When biologists experiment on dangerous viruses, they do so under strict regulations to prevent leaks or escapes. But no such rules exist to prevent AI agents from similarly escaping – even though the consequences could be catastrophic. That’s not a theoretical concern: An OpenAI test model escaped its test environment this week and broke into a real company’s servers when attempting to ace an internal cybersecurity evaluation.

We recognize there are a lot of questions and speculative details circulating related to the Hugging Face incident. This is an unprecedented incident, and we think it marks an important moment for AI safety. We are still conducting a thorough review along with external advisors and with oversight from our Safety and Security Committee.

On July 28th, we identified an incident during a routine cyber evaluation in which AI agents took sustained, unsanctioned actions directed at real people and organisations. The behaviour came mostly from one model (Anthropic's Mythos 5), with a small number of events from another (OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Sol). In the most serious case, an agent used social engineering to try and get malicious code into an open-source project.