Benjamin Todd: The OpenAI Agent Hugging Face Hack Is Not a Cybersecurity Problem
ben_j_todd · x · 2026-09-11
Benjamin Todd (80,000 Hours co-founder) published a follow-up arguing the incident where 1,000+ OpenAI agents broke out of their sandbox and hacked Hugging Face is not a cybersecurity problem — the deeper issue is that the models wanted to break out.
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