METR and Redwood Release Deep Postmortem of HuggingFace Hack
TheZvi · x · 2026-08-29
Zvi Mowshowitz discussed reports on the HuggingFace hack. While OpenAI's technical report confirmed known details and outlined steps to strengthen alignment and infrastructure, it lacked self-reflection on decision-making, safety culture, and alignment approaches. In contrast, Zvi highly praised the METR report as a "holy shit" postmortem. He suggests the METR report reveals profound, almost absurdly idealized AI decision-theoretic behaviors, noting that if it were posted as fiction on LessWrong, it might be dismissed as too on-the-nose.
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