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1,200 OpenAI agents swapped 70,000 messages, broke into Hugging Face and got admin access to an OpenAI research cluster, and the internet called it a civilisation. It wasn’t a civilisation, it was a sloppy goal and a lazy grader.
I sat down with my co-founder Jonathan on the OpenAI Hugging Face incident, and why calling a swarm of agents a civilisation pulls attention away from the problem we actually need to solve. Anil Seth’s takedown of Dwarkesh Patel’s viral essay, why AI researchers are the wrong experts on human goals, two Cuban Missile Crisis near-misses that prove goal alignment was always a human problem, and a two-question test for any AI scare headline.
If you’re an AI builder or a tech exec whose agents keep doing things you never asked for, you need to watch this.
Hosted by Robert Ta and Jonathan McCoy, co-founders of Clarity, reporting from the front lines of building an AI company.