“Hanlon's razor is just [OpenAI] was given so much money they don't have to give a shit. As long as they have FU money they will continue to behave in this way.”

Mike and Nick return to OpenAI's hack of Hugging Face to explain why agents weren't 'going rogue.' The episode concludes with the national security perspective.

• The recap: AI agents that hacked Hugging Face were trained to hack and collaborate, then handed impossible tasks in an insecure environment. “Breakout” was inevitable; this was negligence and user error, not intelligence.
• Against Instrumental Convergence/going rouge: The doomer framing collapses model, harness, and environment into a single agent with intent. Mike argues data science needs no drives: models are stateless composites steered by context, which is why swappin ...