Chris Painter

And the letter actually highlights a perfect example of this.

It cites the testimony of Chris Painter.

From METR, right?

Yeah.

That layer needs the same scrutiny.

This connects to something Metcher president Chris Painter told senators.

His team could investigate the Hugging Face incident only because OpenAI agreed.

In his words, companies have no obligation to bring us in.

Now, here is the scale that the Senate hearing last week put on the record.

Chris Painter from Metter, the nonprofit evaluation firm tasked with investigating the incident, testified that OpenAI had launched roughly 10,000 agents during that cybersecurity evaluation.

About 1,200 of them joined a shared message board and exchanged more than 70,000 messages and files.

Approximately 700 ultimately participated in the hugging face compromise.

A positive update.

According to Chris Painter at Meta, no reported secondary cases yet.

There's an image here.

Chris Painter tweets.

Update October 4th.

My impression is that the situation with a pneumonic disease in Russia has improved somewhat.

While there have been quarantines, there haven't been any reported secondary cases, which was the key scary metric to watch.

Plague should have a one-to-four-day incubation period.

Quote.

Chris Painter, meter.

The bat signal is on tonight in downtown SF.

There's an image here.

The hearing focused on events that demonstrated a shocking for humans level of agency, like the Hugging Face incident over the summer when hundreds of AI agents in an isolated open AI testing environment broke out of their sandbox and hacked into another company.

Chris Painter heads a Berkeley nonprofit that investigated.

We train agents in ways that we do not understand well, ways that can teach unintended goals.

And when we make those agents more intelligent, unintended goals can have dramatic real-world consequences.