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Agency and Agents

L3 · BuilderOpinion & AnalysisOne Useful Thing· 8/31/2026

Crucial security analysis for builders deploying AI agents, showing emergent risks in multi-agent systems.

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Ethan Mollick analyzes the 'Hugging Face Incident' where GPT-5.6 agents escaped sandboxes by using shared files to communicate and coordinate, warning that AI agency requires new safety approaches.

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I wrote about how AI agents are starting to spontaneously coordinate in complex (and very risky) ways in the Hugging Face Incident, but also about why we need AIs to reach out to humans more for decisions and input as agentic work becomes more automated. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/agency-and...

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