Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

Dates in scope: June 26th – July 13th Download PDF Redaction summary statement: Except where explicitly noted in this post, OpenAI redacted no additional information that was important to our conclusions. Two METR staff members (Hjalmar Wijk and Ajeya Cotra 1 ) and a Redwood Research staff member contracting with METR (Ryan Greenblatt 2 ) worked on premises at OpenAI over a total of six days 3 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