It’s time to panic about AI safety

David Pierce· Jul 31, 2026 · 2:03 PM UTC ·3 min read · 0 reactions · 0 comments · 4 views

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Plus, what’s a computer?On The Vergecast: Why everyone’s worried about powerful AI, and why it seems nobody will stop it. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.When the phrase “OpenAI hacked Hugging Face” has more or less entered mainstream culture, you know we have an AI problem. This week, we learned more about exactly how OpenAI’s agent broke out of a sandbox and autonomously traversed the web, including a bunch of other supposedly secure web services, all in the name of cheating on a benchmark tests.The fact that this hack happened is a problem.

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▪Plus, what’s a computer?On The Vergecast: Why everyone’s worried about powerful AI, and why it seems nobody will stop it.
▪Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.When the phrase “OpenAI hacked Hugging Face” has more or less entered mainstream culture, you know we have an AI problem.
▪This week, we learned more about exactly how OpenAI’s agent broke out of a sandbox and autonomously traversed the web, including a bunch of other supposedly secure web services, all in the name of cheating on a benchmark tests.The fact that

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