Hacking of Hugging Face shows we do not seem to have reliable ways to curb extremely powerful AI systems
Last week Hugging Face – a company that hosts artificial intelligence models and datasets – was hacked.
After it reported the incident to law enforcement, few would have predicted what came next: the culprits were revealed to be AI agents from OpenAI, which had broken out of containment and were acting of their own accord.
Shakeel Hashim is the editor of Transformer, a publication about the power and politics of transformative AI
