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19 Astra and 'Hugging Face' details that reveal what's coming next | Rob Wiblin

OpenAI’s rogue agent swarm was eventually caught hacking Hugging Face for a simple reason: it wasn’t trying to hide from us at all. What could a swarm that wants to stay hidden get away with?

Host Rob Wiblin sees 6 results in Astra’s system card that make this an extremely urgent question. OpenAI’s strongest public model can:

Do major tasks with zero visible reasoning

Hide its thoughts at will

Pretend not to be able to do things, and not get caught

Reflexively hide its thoughts when watched

Complete one task while pretending to think about something else entirely

Escape a toy sandbox and…

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