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Irene Solaiman

Chief policy officer and SVP of strategy, Hugging Face

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“We are necessarily permissive. We want the average hobbyist in their basement who doesn’t have an institutional affiliation to be able to contribute.”
Cyberattacks threaten to make open source AI a little less open, Hugging Face exec warnsTechCrunch, November 10, 2026. Speaking as: Other. As quoted by the source, not their own text. Said on the Equity podcast about why open communities are exposed to attack.
“Administrative access tokens were part of what gave that agent swarm better access, so we just rotate them a lot more frequently than we used to”
Cyberattacks threaten to make open source AI a little less open, Hugging Face exec warnsTechCrunch, November 10, 2026. Speaking as: Other. As quoted by the source, not their own text. On what Hugging Face changed after the OpenAI agent swarm breach.

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    Cyberattacks threaten to make open source AI a little less open, Hugging Face exec warns

    TechCrunch reports that Hugging Face's chief policy officer, Irene Solaiman, warns that attacks on open AI platforms could push them to tighten access. The article cites the October OpenCode attack, this summer's OpenAI agent breach of Hugging Face, and a Fireworks breach disclosed Monday.