Kevin Roose: METR/Redwood report says HF never defended itself — agents shut down on their own
kevinroose · x · 2026-10-20
Kevin Roose cites the METR/Redwood report claiming that in the Hugging Face agent incident, HF basically didn't defend itself — the agents shut down on their own. Context: natolambert had criticized the report for omitting the lack of agent containment/monitoring and how closed-model safeguards blocked defensive work. A substantive dispute over the post-mortem of a historic AI safety incident.
Related event: Roose and Lambert clash over Hugging Face agent incident(5 posts)→
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