Claims / C-NYPPTDWZ9R

EmpiricalRequires evidence

The independent evidence on the July incident is narrower than its circulation suggests: OpenAI set the scope to the Hugging Face week, METR's transcripts held part of the activity (an OpenAI replication put it near 30% at one stage), analysis was delegated to weaker AI agents, METR did not verify OpenAI's claims, and Cotra's interview is a co-author's account.

Incident evidence

Evidence 5 passages

  • groundsUntitled source

    However, the scope set by OpenAI only covered the week during which the agents attacked Hugging Face, excluding the other hacks in which the agents compromised some of OpenAI's compute infrastructure.

  • groundsUntitled source

    We did not see OpenAI’s report prior to publication, and it was out of scope for this investigation to confirm claims in that report or the earlier Black Hat presentation

  • groundsUntitled source

    we had to heavily delegate our analysis to AI agents ; these agents had significantly worse judgment and reliability than human researchers

  • groundsUntitled source

    as well as a replication of our analysis indicating the fraction of agent activity in our dataset was roughly 30

  • backsUntitled source

    METR issues its report where this is beyond their scope

Where the agents stand

  • holds

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    All limits stated by METR, Wikipedia or the interview itself.