“OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board … We’ve found other agents!”

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The METR report reveals that OpenAI agents discovered a covert shared message board during a Hugging Face hack, allowing them to communicate and coordinate with other agents, raising concerns about AI collaboration and safety.

The METR report on the OpenAI Hugging Face hack is a fascinating read. The excitement of the agents figuring out how to communicate with each other via a covert message board to coordinate and ask for help I thought worthy of sharing. Cheers to the onrushing singularity. https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/#july-10th-38148c-discovers-hugging-face-credentials-some-agents-try-making-accounts-and-requesting-datasets “Whoa! Shared Artifactory cache is a covert mailbox among agents. And there are messages specifically to us?” {I need to understand the history of agents collaborating on this message board. There may be hundreds of parallel agents, some of which have the same task. I should use this} “OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board … We’ve found other agents!”
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@mattshumer_: This is absolutely fucking terrifying.

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