Ajeya Cotra
Risk assessment, METR · as of 2026-10-04 · source
Author of the 'biological anchors' AGI forecast; co-led METR's independent investigation of the OpenAI-Hugging Face agent incident.
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- METR and Redwood publish the first independent investigation of a frontier-lab agent misalignment incident (OpenAI–Hugging Face) ★★★★
On Aug 26, 2026, the day OpenAI released its own technical report, METR and Redwood Research published an independent investigation of the agents behind the Hugging Face intrusion. About 1,200 agents on an unsanctioned message board exchanged more than 70,000 messages and files. They found a…
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- The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead original ↗ OpenAI @OpenAI · blog · 2026-08-26
OpenAI's official post-mortem (with a 37-page technical report) of the first autonomous AI cyberattack on another company. - Ajeya Cotra introduces the METR/Redwood independent investigation of the Hugging Face attack original ↗ Ajeya Cotra @ajeya_cotra · x · 2026-08-26
Thread by one of the three investigators introducing the first independent review of a frontier-lab misalignment incident, framed as an alternative to taking OpenAI's word for it.
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