Criminologist on Hugging Face breach: multi-agent AI is the real safety frontier
sebkrier · x · 2026-09-02
Criminologist Gian Maria Campedelli reacts to OpenAI's report on the Hugging Face breach, arguing that beyond the anthropomorphized hype, the episode highlights an overlooked point: AI's future salience will come from interacting agents, not passive tools.
- Multi-agent AI systems are going mainstream, implying a qualitative and quantitative leap in safety challenges over single agents
- Social science knows little about how opinions form, goals get steered, values develop, and strategies diffuse in such systems
- His open-access paper A Criminology of Machines (Theory and Society) draws on Actor-Network Theory to argue AI agents should be treated as entities with computational, social, and legal agency, proposing a dual taxonomy of multi-agent risks
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