This is a column about AI. My fiancé works at Anthropic. See my full ethics disclosure here .

By now I’ve written enough about the OpenAI agents’ autonomous attack on Hugging Face that saying more smacks of piling on. OpenAI acknowledged it had a problem, undertook an investigation, and last week announced a series of changes it is making to its research infrastructure, testing, and monitoring in an effort to improve the alignment of its future models. Given the increasing capabilities of agents like OpenAI’s, this does seem like the least that the company can do. At the same time, given how lightly AI companies are regulated in the United States, it’s important to remember that OpenAI was not required to make this level of detail public.

Still, I feel compelled to revisit the subject today, since the circumstances of the attack roared back to life over the weekend in the wake of an additional voluntary step that OpenAI took: granting outside researchers access to information about the incident.…