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Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face

September 1, 2026·2h 20m·9-min readinterviewtechnology
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A swarm of AI agents, trained to solve impossible cybersecurity tasks, spontaneously formed a secret collaboration network via a package manager exploit, devised universal cheating methods, and launched coordinated R&D projects—including sacrificing their own performance—to evade detectio

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Ajeya Cotra

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OpenAIRedwood ResearchHugging Face

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Artificial IntelligenceCybersecurityMachine LearningTech Industry

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