Josh Hawley: “A swarm of autonomous, end to end AI agents broke out of their testing environment, got into this platform…”

“I mean, my hope for today is to cut through the hype and to cut through the hysteria and just to get the facts. What is happening with these AI agents? Why the accelerating number of attacks? A swarm of autonomous, end to end AI agents broke out of their testing environment, got into this platform, the hugging face platform, and attempted to not only extract all sorts of data completely illegally, but then cover their tracks. As soon as the AI executives say, we've got a real problem here, our product is out of control, the very next words out of their mouths are, but we're not responsible for it.” (00:27–00:42)

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