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The “slop-vestigation” and ethics washing: Why was the METR/Redwood Research investigation into the OpenAI/HF attack so short?

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I am not a lawyer, I don’t know anything about cybersecurity; all the usual caveats hold

Two METR staff members (Hjalmar Wijk and Ajeya Cotra) and a Redwood Research staff member contracting with METR (Ryan Greenblatt) worked on premises at OpenAI over a total of six days to attempt to form an independent understanding of model behavior observed during the recent incident in which OpenAI agents coordinated a multi-day hack of Hugging Face on a shared unsanctioned “message board.” (Brief independent investigation of agents' behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident) Ryan Greenblatt@RyanGreenblatt I was the main person doing transcript…

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