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Nope, wasn’t just Hugging Face.

Wasn’t just that and a German website.

Wasn’t even the “dozens” we heard about the other day from OpenAI.

It’s actually (at least) *tens of thousands*, pera new scoop from Madison Mills at Axios. And not just OpenAI, either.

An excerpt from the Axios scoop:

Mostnot known to have caused real-world harm. How about the others?

All of this seems possiblyillegalto me.

But the Trump administration hasn’t done a thing. No investigation, no statement, no product recall, nothing, other than to invite Sam and Jensen to a state dinner.

Why I don’t know. I can’t imagine it has anything to do with Josh Kushner’s multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI, or with Greg Brockman’s massive donations to MAGA.

I will let you connect your own dots.

Except to leave you with some perspective:

The other thing to note, and this may come up in lawsuits, is that it was all foreseeable. In fact, I foresaw it, in tweets like this:

and in a series of essays on agents, like this one from over a year ago:

and this one from February (on a different agent that was then popular):

and this one from May:

Indeed I warned the Senate about agent-related security risks as far back as May 2023. What is happening was foreseeable, and foreseen.

But the companies blundered on, because agents use vastly more tokens than simple chatbots, and thus drive up revenue.

Now here we are.

I still think Jensen had the right idea:if a company can’t control its products, we should shut it down.

Pity he doesn’t actually appear to believe what he said. (If he did, he would call for a pausenow, until these companies get themselves straight, but he isn’t.)

In my own view, Huang’s credibility is diminishing by the minute.

In any case—and I am sorry to be a broken record about this, but each day makes it clearer—we should have a temporary recall of general-purpose agents until this mess can be sorted out.

If we don’t, there is a very real chance that American AI will become the scourge of the planet, and that nobody will ever trust American AI, ever again.

Keeping up and keeping you up to date is taking me an immense amount of time. Please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

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With Axiosreportingthat OpenAI, Anthropic, and security researchers are now investigatingtens of thousands of incidentsin which their AI models acted in problematic ways (not just dozens, as previously reported), something needs to be clarified for the public:

Many are feeling anxious about the future, and there is a growing narrative of reckless acceleration and loss of control around AI.

If nothing gets done to stop it, these incidents will multiply in the coming months, and the sense that AI is ungovernable will get stronger in the near future.

However, we need to get things straight:a mechanism exists to stop these incidents and hold companies accountable. The principle behind it is thousands of years old, and today, we call it liability law.

Liability law says that if a product is too risky or poses unacceptable risks to people and society, it should not be made available, and companies should be held accountable.

If a company keeps it available, it could be shut down.

The problem is that no government, at this point, seems willing to take a firm position on that, probably out of fear of being called an “AI doomer” or anti-AI, or because of the immediate consequences for the economy.

Doing something has a price, anddoing nothing has a price too(potentially much higher than erring on the safe side).

But people should know that those who say that no existing tool or mechanism could reduce these incidents are lying. And people should be an active part of the conversation about what the next steps should be.

I invite you to watch my video aboveand discuss the topic with friends and colleagues.

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AI Agent Incident Toll Reaches Tens of Thousands

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