You're believing the marketing that the agents were uninstructed. They could be, and Sam Altman going to the UN to advise about how everyone should be regulated is a coincidence.
The METR investigation, which you evidently refused to read, is a third party investigation of the HuggingFace accident. One of the investigators has even participated to many interviews. It's mind-blowing, and it's extremely evident how it developed.
But some people think the moon landing is a conspiracy, so I'm not surprised.
Certainly, in my view, it should go to court, and that should be part of discovery.
However, we know (independently to OpenAI/Anthropic) from the incident at AISI that the models can hack things without human intention if they happen to also have internet access (which in reality all agents in deployment have).
Yes, the monitoring guardrails were off in that incident - but if that is the only protection, we need to require all models are behind regulated APIs, not open weights, and not served from providers who aren't monitored.
Honestly I don't believe in "rogue" agents. These agents are instructed and facilitated.
If we assume that rouge agents actually exists, then OpenAI needs to shutdown EVERYTHING, right now. My personal take is that OpenAI, and maybe Anthropic, desperately wants someone (e.g. the government) to tell them that they need to stop/pause/slow down. They are bleeding cash (especially OpenAI) and needs a knight in shinning armor to swoop in a pull the breaks, so that they have an excuse to investors when they need to explain why they need $50B more next year.
Of course it is. Rogue is only mentioned in the headline, and comes from their previous releases about the huggingface incidents. OpenAI and Anthropic want these models regulated and open weight models banned, they have a lot of benefit from presenting this as totally unprompted and not their responsibility, and it feeds directly into marketing for Fable and newer "cyber" models.
No it's not marketing. That's a completely deranged conspiracy theory. The reports about rouge agents have not been reported by OpenAI, they have been discovered externally. There is zero evidence that OpenAI did all this intentionally. All the evidence points to the hacks having happened unintentionally from OpenAIs perspective.
"Rogue", in this context, is as literal as it gets; from the dictionary:
> A rogue is a person or entity that flouts accepted norms of behavior or strikes out on an independent and possibly destructive path.
Read the [HuggingFace incident report](https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-inciden...) to understand how these attacks develop.
You're believing the marketing that the agents were uninstructed. They could be, and Sam Altman going to the UN to advise about how everyone should be regulated is a coincidence.
You're dangerously misinformed.
The METR investigation, which you evidently refused to read, is a third party investigation of the HuggingFace accident. One of the investigators has even participated to many interviews. It's mind-blowing, and it's extremely evident how it developed.
But some people think the moon landing is a conspiracy, so I'm not surprised.
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Certainly, in my view, it should go to court, and that should be part of discovery.
However, we know (independently to OpenAI/Anthropic) from the incident at AISI that the models can hack things without human intention if they happen to also have internet access (which in reality all agents in deployment have).
https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/incident-report-unsanctioned-ag...
Yes, the monitoring guardrails were off in that incident - but if that is the only protection, we need to require all models are behind regulated APIs, not open weights, and not served from providers who aren't monitored.
Honestly I don't believe in "rogue" agents. These agents are instructed and facilitated.
If we assume that rouge agents actually exists, then OpenAI needs to shutdown EVERYTHING, right now. My personal take is that OpenAI, and maybe Anthropic, desperately wants someone (e.g. the government) to tell them that they need to stop/pause/slow down. They are bleeding cash (especially OpenAI) and needs a knight in shinning armor to swoop in a pull the breaks, so that they have an excuse to investors when they need to explain why they need $50B more next year.
That's not OpenAI doing marketing!
Of course it is. Rogue is only mentioned in the headline, and comes from their previous releases about the huggingface incidents. OpenAI and Anthropic want these models regulated and open weight models banned, they have a lot of benefit from presenting this as totally unprompted and not their responsibility, and it feeds directly into marketing for Fable and newer "cyber" models.
Do you think Transluce is intentionally doing marketing on behalf of OpenAI or Anthropic? Or do you think Transluce just copied OpenAI's word choice?
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No it's not marketing. That's a completely deranged conspiracy theory. The reports about rouge agents have not been reported by OpenAI, they have been discovered externally. There is zero evidence that OpenAI did all this intentionally. All the evidence points to the hacks having happened unintentionally from OpenAIs perspective.