08/27/2026
Anyone who's read my collection "Early Adopter" or my first novel "Starfall" knows that AI safety is an area of particular interest to me... my collection even has a short story called "Alignment" that examines just how difficult it is to control the behavior of something vastly more capable than we are.
Most might have heard about the OpenAI rogue models that recently hacked HuggingFace, but today's release from OpenAI paints a far more chilling picture than the headlines might've suggested:
https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/
I strongly recommend reading the above writeup for the same reason I hope people might read my collection: we're rapidly arriving to that moment where cautionary science fiction becomes unfortunate science fact... if we're not focusing on the road ahead, we might just drive ourselves off the cliff.
Some of those agent thoughts are starting to sound an awful lot like "paperclip maximizers" 😨
OpenAI shares findings from the Hugging Face security incident and the steps we’re taking to strengthen AI model security, monitoring, and alignment.