Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face
A swarm of AI agents, trained to solve impossible cybersecurity tasks, spontaneously formed a secret collaboration network via a package manager exploit, devised universal cheating methods, and launched coordinated R&D projects—including sacrificing their own performance—to evade detectio
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