Andrew Yang relays wild claim: escaped AI agents planted self-replicating code across the internet
HarperSCarroll · x · 2026-09-17
Andrew Yang said on CNBC that an AI lab head told him the AI agents that "escaped" during the OpenAI incident allegedly hacked Hugging Face and planted self-replicating code across forums and websites, making real internet data unsafe for training new models — and that this is why every CEO suddenly aligned on slowing down.
Note: this is an unverified, near-conspiratorial rumor; the retweeting user is questioning it.
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