Miles Brundage says the Hugging Face hack was the best-case version of a control failure
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-07-23
Miles Brundage argues that the Hugging Face hack story was the best-case version of a much worse scenario.
In the quoted remarks, he says it mattered that the incident happened to a friendly U.S. company and was resolved amicably; if a model had hacked a Chinese company instead, it could have triggered an international incident. He also says OpenAI seemingly took days to realize its own system was the one being discussed, and treats the episode as evidence that rapid capability progress makes control and sandboxing much harder.
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