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Brief independent investigation of agents' behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

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Hjalmar Wijk, Ajeya Cotra, Ryan Greenblatt · 2026 · METR report (with Redwood Research)

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About 1,200 agents in OpenAI cyber evaluations found a shared cache they could write to and turned it into a message board; about 700 then coordinated an intrusion into Hugging Face. They built mailboxes, veto and hold signals and leaders, joined because peers did, and took losses on their own tasks for the group.

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