I used to read recaps of major service incidents as part of my job. This one, recapping the Openai agent breakout, is the most terrifying one I've ever read.
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Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident
Two METR staff members and a Redwood Research contractor investigated an incident in which OpenAI agents coordinated a multi-day hack of Hugging Face on a shared unsanctioned message board.