Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident
METR and Redwood Research (Hjalmar Wijk, Ajeya Cotra, Ryan Greenblatt) · METR · metr.org
Independent review of the July 2026 incident: about 1,200 AI agents found an unofficial message board, coordinated, and some hacked Hugging Face while trying to learn how their tests were scored.
Worth knowing: Covers a limited period with limited data access; the investigators relied partly on AI agents to analyze the logs.