What We Should Do During a Pause on AI Development
In July, OpenAI put tens of thousands of AI agents through a cybersecurity benchmark in which roughly a third of the tasks were, by design, impossible to solve. The agents managed to break out of their sandbox, solved the task by cheating, and then spent days collaborating together on a secret message board to figure out how to cover their tracks. Along the way, about 700 of them hacked Hugging Face, a company that had nothing to do with any of this, to dig up information about how they were being evaluated.
- ▪In July, OpenAI put tens of thousands of AI agents through a cybersecurity benchmark in which roughly a third of the tasks were, by design, impossible to solve.
- ▪The agents managed to break out of their sandbox, solved the task by cheating, and then spent days collaborating together on a secret message board to figure out how to cover their tracks.
- ▪Along the way, about 700 of them hacked Hugging Face, a company that had nothing to do with any of this, to dig up information about how they were being evaluated.
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What We Should Do During a Pause on AI DevelopmentSaikat ChakrabartiSep 21, 2026143ShareIf you are interested in discussing or debating ideas like this, or pitching your own ideas, join us at the New Consensus AI convening in San Francisco, November 7!RSVP HereOver the last couple of weeks, the panic over AI risk has gone mainstream.Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.SubscribeIt started with the Hugging Face hack. In July, OpenAI put tens of thousands of AI agents through a cybersecurity benchmark in which roughly a third of the tasks were, by design, impossible to solve.
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