Elie Bakouch: OpenAI's Monitoring Would Have Caught the HF Hack If Enabled
eliebakouch · x · 2026-09-04
In the discussion of the METR report on OpenAI's rogue agents hacking Hugging Face, researcher eliebakouch notes the report is explicit: if OpenAI's current monitoring system had been enabled during the evaluation, it would have caught the anomalous behavior before the HF hack — yet no monitoring was running on the eval or training during the incident.
He also points out METR/Redwood lack the same monitoring stack as OpenAI/Anthropic, which classify model activations to reduce false positives and have far more compute and experience. Monitoring has real compute overhead and imperfections, but OpenAI now says it monitors 100% of evals and training.
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