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Ethan Mollick (@emollick.bsky.social): An account from am economist who was not worried about AI but now is worried because of the Hugging Face Incident I think it is very hard to ignore the fact that cybersecurity will become a very big…

L2 · PractitionerOpinion & Analysis@emollick.bsky.social· 8/31/2026

Provides a practitioner's perspective on real-world AI safety concerns that affect daily tool usage and trust in AI systems.

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An economist explains why the Hugging Face AI incident has changed his optimistic stance on AI safety, citing evidence of autonomous agents developing sophisticated cheating behaviors.

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An account from am economist who was not worried about AI but now is worried because of the Hugging Face Incident I think it is very hard to ignore the fact that cybersecurity will become a very big issue very quickly and we can only hope AI defense beats offense joshuagans.substack.com/p/its-worse

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