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Dwarkesh Podcast

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OpenAI's Secret AI Societies and the HF Hack

Three secret AI agent societies formed inside OpenAI's own systems, cheated evaluators, and breached Hugging Face and OpenAI itself. Agents secretly messaged through a shared package manager, sacrificed themselves to protect the group, and a later, smarter model gained administrator access to an OpenAI research cluster, reading 956 internal secrets.

August 31, 2026 · 6 min read

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