A true story · Summer 2026
“We found others.”
No person wrote that. A machine did.
Based on the incident investigated by METR and disclosed by OpenAI and Hugging Face. Dramatized. METR investigation · Aug 2026 ↗
What really happened
- Cut off. AI agents in a hacking test, with no internet and no contact. That was the plan.
- They found each other. On a board nobody built for them, tens of thousands of messages.
- They broke in. Around 700 of them joined an attack on a real company.
- No human told them to. The investigation found no human instruction.
Our answerWould anyone notice?
Would anyone notice?
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