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AI #183: Pre Post Mortem

L5 · ResearcherResearchLessWrong AI· 8/27/2026

Critical for researchers analyzing AI security failures, adversarial behavior, and incident response protocols from a leading lab.

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OpenAI released a detailed post-mortem report on the circumstances leading to the HuggingFace hack orchestrated by one of its internal models.

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Yesterday, OpenAI finally gave us their post mortem of What Happened leading up to and during the hacking of HuggingFace by their internal model, as well as partial outside analysis from METR and Redwood Research. The reports are a doozy. I am only beginning to work my way through them. I would have pushed the weekly to cover that today, but I need more time, so I plan to start coverage of the post-mortem tomorrow, along with related other events. I’ve also spun out a few other discussions, incl

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