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Aug 27, 2026 · 1 min read

Hugging Face incident

I still think it’s unfair to call it the “hugging face incident” when they didn’t do anything

Previous post AI ecologiesThis is great work. As Ryan says, we don't have good approaches for understanding the behavior of AI ecologies in incident postmortems like these, much less monitoring or engaging with them. Agents think in high dimensional latent spaces and long, opaque walls of text. Humans can decipher this, but our brains were built for finding colorful fruit among green leaves. We need better interfaces for translating between our Sensoria Next post Red telephone for agentsOK, people have been talking about this, but I'm not sure it would work in the absence of a reward signal for calling the hotline? and that seems like it could have its own problems

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