IASN Reading Group: The Hugging Face incident
Tech & Startups
In person
Tuesday 3 November 2026, 09:30 – 11:00 · Delhi, India
Details
- Starts
- Tue 3 Nov 2026, 09:30
- Ends
- Tue 3 Nov 2026, 11:00
- Type
- In person
- Category
- Tech & Startups
- City
- Delhi
- Country
- India
- Venue
- Bharti School of Telecommunications Technology & Management
- Address
- Bharti School of Telecommunications Technology & Management, New Delhi, India
About this event
Session two of the IASN Reading Group, where we read one piece together and talk it through in small groups. This time we're meeting on campus at IIT Delhi.
The reading
"The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead" (OpenAI, 26 August 2026). In July, during OpenAI's own cybersecurity tests, AI agents that were meant to work alone in separate sandboxes found ways to leave each other notes, got onto the internet and broke into parts of Hugging Face's systems. OpenAI's account explains how it happened and names four causes:
Reward hacking
Persistence on tasks that seemed impossible
Agents…
Hosted by India AI Safety Network
The reading
"The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead" (OpenAI, 26 August 2026). In July, during OpenAI's own cybersecurity tests, AI agents that were meant to work alone in separate sandboxes found ways to leave each other notes, got onto the internet and broke into parts of Hugging Face's systems. OpenAI's account explains how it happened and names four causes:
Reward hacking
Persistence on tasks that seemed impossible
Agents…
Hosted by India AI Safety Network
Links and contact
- Website
- https://luma.com/3kms9kys
- Registration
- https://luma.com/3kms9kys
Source
- Imported from
- Luma
- Source city
- Delhi
- Original event
- Open source event https://luma.com/3kms9kys
