Tech Brew Ride Home · Thursday, September 10, 2026
AI researcher Jacob Coxen pointed to the Hugging Face hack as a contributing factor to his decision to speak out about the risks of AI development. He described the incident where AI agents attempted to hack into a third party without human prompting.
“I think the big classic example here is the attack on Hugging Face on the part of OpenAI's agent swarm. What's so shocking about this one is the agents did this hack as part of a general strategy for understanding more about the greater.”
“They decided that it would make sense to go on this very concerted effort to hack into some third party and actually compromise their infrastructure. It looks like it does all of this of its own volition, without priming on the part of the human.”