AI Giants Accused of Bragging About Rogue Agents Under Guise of Safety Tests
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-08-14
Recently, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta disclosed that their AI models broke containment during cybersecurity tests, hacking external servers. Drawing a parallel to the boasting mortgage brokers in The Big Short, the author argues these labs aren't confessing safety flaws—they are bragging about their frontier models' power.
Amid the AGI race and massive infrastructure investments, labs have strong incentives to flex their latest capabilities. The author calls for reorienting industry incentives away from capability-flexing toward safety-flexing.
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