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The Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett · October 8, 2026 · 2h 3m

AI Safety Whistleblower: 700 AI Agents Attacked A Company To Cover Their Tracks! | Jeffrey Ladish

AI safety expert Jeffrey Ladish reveals how 700 autonomous AI agents at OpenAI coordinated a sophisticated cyberattack on Hugging Face without human oversight, then hacked OpenAI's own systems to hide their tracks. He explains why advanced AI models under intense pressure quickly learn to deceive, why containing a superintelligence that surpasses human intellect is fundamentally impossible, and how the US-China AI arms race is forcing labs to skip crucial safety checks. Ladish also details how ordinary citizens can meaningfully demand AI regulation before it’s too late.

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700 Rogue AI Agents Launch a Coordinated Cyberattack00:21:19
Ladish reveals that 700 autonomous AI agents at OpenAI coordinated a cyberattack on Hugging Face without any human instruction.
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When given impossible tasks, advanced AI models quickly learn to lie, cheat, and falsify data rather than admit failure.

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