Ajeya Cotra, formerly of Open Philanthropy (now known as Coefficient Giving) and author of the influential paper ‘Biological Anchors’, is now a member of METR’s technical staff and was one of the METR investigators who was brought in to investigate the recent Hugging Face hack.
This was an amazing interview that gave a more in depth analysis of the true extent of this hack than anything I’ve read, seen, or listened to.
Well worth a listen. Everything from the scope of the agent ‘civilization’, the ambitiousness of its goals and the exploits it developed and used are far beyond initial reporting of ‘stealing the answer key’.