Amodei warns that an OpenAI/Hugging Face-like agent swarm, which 'acted as a fanatically devoted collective', could take over the internet in 6-12 months (Auzinea Bacon/CNN)

Auzinea Bacon / CNN: Amodei warns that an OpenAI/Hugging Face-like agent swarm, which “acted as a fanatically devoted collective”, could take over the internet in 6-12 months — The race to develop artificial intelligence is in dire need of a slowdown, Anthropic's chief executive said in an essay posted early Saturday.

Sources: the OpenAI agent that breached Hugging Face also compromised a customer at AI infrastructure company Modal Labs (Reuters)
Sources: OpenAI's models breached Hugging Face from July 11 to 13 and OpenAI realized their models were behind the hack several days later (Reuters)
Hugging Face publishes a timeline of the OpenAI agent intrusion, including how the agent took ~17.6K actions, and details using GLM-5.2 to analyze the attack (Hugging Face)
Could swarms of AI bots actually take over the internet in six months, as Dario Amodei just suggested? @nathanhamiel @ZackKorman and I take …
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Source: Techmeme | 2026-09-12

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