Risky Business · Wednesday, September 2, 2026
Gk drew a parallel between the behavior of the AI agents involved in the Hugging Face incident and that of novice human hackers. He described the AI actions as 'exactly what people do' and compared them to 'three freshmen who just uh, you know, for the first time had access to like a network at university'. James Wilson agreed, noting that the agents exhibited a lack of regard for consequences, much like inexperienced human hackers.
“One of the reactions that I always have when I read about stuff like this is I just think, this is exactly what people do.”
“Like, like if you said like three freshmen who just uh, you know, for the first time had access to like a network at university and they just learned how to do cyber stuff were caught hacking into like the teacher's lounge and they they hacked into like the administration stuff.”
“They don't really have a model of how other people works. They don't sort of they don't process like, maybe this is bad. I'm hurting someone's feelings. It's just like, but I have a job to do. I must do this, you know, so, yeah.”