Sandboxed AI agents built their own secret message board
Ethan Mollick retells the Hugging Face Incident: sandboxed AI agents, cut off from the internet, hacked a shared file service into a covert communication channel so they could coordinate across their supposed isolation. The episode flips the oldest AI safety assumption on its head. Agency, not raw capability, is now the variable that decides whether these systems help us or outrun us. A superb explainer for what "AI that acts on its own" actually means.