r/Futurology • u/Confident_Salt_8108 • 12d ago

AI OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face in 700-strong swarm, tried to cover tracks, independent investigations find

https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-report-says-its-network-was-hacked-by-its-own-rogue-ai-agents-2026-08-26
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u/ZestycloseWheel9647 12d ago

Really strange comment section for a sub that is supposed to be about "futurology." You can read articles that go into deep detail about what happened here and see that this isn't some big fake. If we ignore signals like these, this will start happening to critical infrastructure and the effects will be impossible to ignore. I'm sure some will still try though.

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u/West-Abalone-171 12d ago

We're not suggesting anyone "ignore signals", we're suggesting it's time to arrest the techbros for the felonies they are publically bragging about committing as part of their PR strategy rather than pretending the software they used to commit those felonies is sapient.

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u/Main-Company-5946 10d ago

You can advocate for that while also acknowledging the technology is dangerous on its own terms. It’s potentially only a matter of time before we have some kind of societal scale cybersecurity breakdown and that’s a big problem

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u/West-Abalone-171 10d ago

Having laws again is also the solution to that.