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title: "Q&A with METR researcher Ajeya Cotra on investigating the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, AI agents involved in the hack deciding not to notify humans, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/q-a-with-metr-researcher-ajeya-cotra-on-investigating-the-openai-446e45fe
published: 2026-09-02T06:40:03.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# Q\&A with METR researcher Ajeya Cotra on investigating the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, AI agents involved in the hack deciding not to notify humans, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-09-02 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/q-a-with-metr-researcher-ajeya-cotra-on-investigating-the-openai-446e45fe

Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast : Q\&A with METR researcher Ajeya Cotra on investigating the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, AI agents involved in the hack deciding not to notify humans, and more — "This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get." — Ajeya Cotra is a researcher at METR, where she works on threat modeling …

In this story: [METR](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/metr), [Dwarkesh Patel](https://frontiernewswire.com/people/dwarkesh-patel)

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/260902/p5#a260902p5)

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