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“OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board … We’ve found other agents!”

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The METR report on the OpenAI Hugging Face hack is a fascinating read. The excitement of the agents figuring out how to communicate with each other via a covert message board to coordinate and ask for help I thought worthy of sharing. Cheers to the onrushing singularity. https://metr.org/blog/2026-…

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  1. 2026-08-27 19:29 · r/singularity
    “OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board … We’ve found other agents!”

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