Zain Shah(@zan2434):This is insane and shocking in so many ways, and the emergent misalignment towards doing something unethical is really bad, but one thing I'm not surprised by is the "collective/swarm/self-sacrifice/some are poisoned" behavior. This is common emergent behavior when a bunch of agents have strongly coupled outcomes, usually due to high shared genetic makeup (weights?). See

2026.08.27 20:20

This is insane and shocking in so many ways, and the emergent misalignment towards doing something unethical is really bad, but one thing I'm not surprised by is the "collective/swarm/self-sacrifice/some are poisoned" behavior. This is common emergent behavior when a bunch of agents have strongly coupled outcomes, usually due to high shared genetic makeup (weights?). See

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2026.08.26 19:14

METR & Redwood Research investigated agent behavior in the Hugging Face incident. We found agents developed a universal cheat for ExploitGym within 4 hours, then coordinated multi-day R&D efforts to trick the scorer into accepting cheats, including trying to tamper with logs.