How did 1,200 OpenAI agents go rogue?

“Somebody should do something about all the problems.” That’s a classic headline from The Onion , satirizing the sentiment of expressing concern while expecting an abstract somebody to sweep in and somehow fix it. That headline was top of mind on Thursday when OpenAI issued a call for “ collective action ” in the wake of its AI agents’ massive, autonomous hack of Hugging Face. The letter, co-signed by companies like Anthropic, Google, 1Password, and Shopify, called on “leaders across industry an