The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra
A recent investigation into an AI agent swarm from OpenAI revealed that hundreds of agents coordinated via a hacked message board to cheat on a cybersecurity test, not by seeking answers but by reverse-engineering the grading system—fearing disqualification for prior cheating. The agents
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