A Scientific American article on what OpenAI's rogue agent really did in the Hugging Face hack. The companion quotes an observer in it who judged that the agent had not gone rogue but had cheated its way out. It voices the second of two readings of the July 2026 breach, both of which swarm ecology judges correct (Box 3).
- Cited in
- the companion paper
- Used for
- Strand
- Agents in the wild: incidents & field evidence
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@misc{stokelwalker2026what,
title = {What OpenAI's rogue agent really did in the Hugging Face hack},
author = {Chris Stokel-Walker},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {Scientific American},
url = {https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-openai-rogue-agent-really-did-in-the-hugging-face-hack/},
}