I'm working with METR to do a third-party investigation into the behavior in the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident. We'll be releasing a public post with our findings (and information about the terms and scope).
This investigation will focus mostly on basic facts and is limited specifically to the behavior of agents in this particular incident, rather than scoping in similar incidents or broader study of the underlying motivations of the agent. But it could still be possible to provide significant clarity about what happened and what these agents were thinking.
The plan is for this investigation to be fast (and this came together pretty fast!), so hopefully we'll have a public post soon.