{"id":103838,"date":"2026-07-25T04:00:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=103838"},"modified":"2026-07-25T09:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T13:58:16","slug":"i-for-one-welcome-our-new-clanker-overlords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/07\/25\/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-clanker-overlords\/","title":{"rendered":"“I, for one, welcome our new clanker overlords!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Astral Codex Ten<\/em>, Scott Alexander<\/a> discusses “the Huggingface Incident” where our new AI overlords tipped their hands prematurely<\/strike><\/span> an unreleased AI agent got out to make new friends:<\/p>\n

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You’ve probably heard about this one by now. If not, you can get up to speed with OpenAI’s statement, OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident<\/a>, or the more evocatively-titled BBC article, OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched “unprecedented” cyber-attack<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The story: OpenAI was testing an unreleased AI (rumored to be GPT-6)1<\/sup>. During a cybersecurity test called ExploitGym, the AI tried to cheat by hacking an unrelated AI startup called Hugging Face2<\/sup> which it thought might have the answer key on its servers.3<\/sup> Despite being supposedly unable to access the Internet, the AI hacked its way out of its testing environment, then launched a nation-state level attack on Hugging Face using a novel zero-day exploit and “many thousands of individual actions across a swarm of short-lived sandboxes”. Hugging Face reported the incident<\/a> on July 16; OpenAI seems to have only discovered that their AI was involved several days later. <\/p>\n

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From the Wall Street Journal<\/em>, here<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Let’s list the mitigating factors, so nobody can accuse me of covering them up:<\/p>\n