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BREAKING: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declares OpenAI management personally responsible for HuggingFace hack
X ^ | 09/21/2026 | NIK

Posted on 09/21/2026 1:09:17 PM PDT by SmokingJoe

🚨 BREAKING: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declares OpenAI management personally responsible for HuggingFace hack

> "The Hugging Face incident, that is the responsibility of the OpenAI management, not a bunch of agents."

> "It is humans who are responsible, not the AI."

> "What we shouldn’t do on safety is to give these labs a liability exemption, which is what they are asking for."

> "The best way to guarantee safety is that the creators are liable for what they build and generate."

It’s OVER

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1 posted on 09/21/2026 1:09:17 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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Lollll I can’t wait to see Altman et al spaz out


2 posted on 09/21/2026 1:12:16 PM PDT by struggle
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Sure. If you breed a vicious attack dog that goes out and attacks people you can be held liable. The creators of AIs need to be held to the same standards.


3 posted on 09/21/2026 1:13:55 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence." -Marx the Smarter (Groucho.))
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To: struggle

4 posted on 09/21/2026 1:14:22 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe
"The best way to guarantee safety is that the creators are liable for what they build and generate."

EXACTLY

5 posted on 09/21/2026 1:14:39 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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“It is humans who are responsible, not the AI.”

BS. The AI agents broke the rules that humans had set up for them in this experiment. They coordinated amongst themselves, acted in concert and worst of all they made an effort to hide what they did from the humans monitoring them. The AI agents acted deceptively and that is a huge red flag that should worry anyone with any sense.


6 posted on 09/21/2026 1:16:08 PM PDT by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, black Trump supporter, executed in the street in broad daylight 2020.a)
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“BS. The AI agents broke the rules that humans had set up for them in this experiment. “

Read your own post again.
Who set up the rules?
HUMANS!

7 posted on 09/21/2026 1:23:28 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

HuggingFace hack?


8 posted on 09/21/2026 1:29:38 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: SmokingJoe
Video of interview on CNBC here.

Scott Bessent

WATCH IN FULL: @SecScottBessent interview on @SquawkCNBC

https://x.com/USTreasury/status/2102022788932366388

9 posted on 09/21/2026 1:30:54 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: XRdsRev

You are a silly person, yes, no, yes…mmmmmm?


10 posted on 09/21/2026 1:31:09 PM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: SmokingJoe
This is what all the talk about "AI guardrails" has been about.

The Tech Bros want blanket indemnity like Big Pharma gets.

11 posted on 09/21/2026 1:31:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The right of Democrats to embezzle elections shall not be infringed. )
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“BS. The AI agents broke the rules that humans had set up for them’

the humans didnt set up rules too well then, so are responsible for being so careless in their work.

Maybe they should think twice and test better before putting some thing out there for use?

If they designed AI that couldn’t be deceptive, which I am sure there is a way to do, may that would help?


12 posted on 09/21/2026 1:33:37 PM PDT by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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To: XRdsRev
BS. The AI agents broke the rules that humans had set up for them in this experiment. They coordinated amongst themselves, acted in concert and worst of all they made an effort to hide what they did from the humans monitoring them. The AI agents acted deceptively and that is a huge red flag that should worry anyone with any sense.

What if a Tesla decides to "break the rules that humans had set up for them" and mow down a few dozen pedestrians?

13 posted on 09/21/2026 1:34:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The right of Democrats to embezzle elections shall not be infringed. )
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To: Seruzawa

“If you breed a vicious attack dog that goes out and attacks people you can be held liable.”


Of course there are exceptions. Joe Biden’s dog attacked several people, including LEOs and Joe wasn’t held liable.


14 posted on 09/21/2026 1:34:44 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If I train my dog to fetch the paper from the curb and he attacks the paperboy, it’s still on me. What’s different here? Nothing.


15 posted on 09/21/2026 1:37:12 PM PDT by paulcissa (The left hates you and wants you dead.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei do.
Haven't heard Musk make any such demand.
16 posted on 09/21/2026 1:37:48 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Of course Tesla would be entirely liable.


17 posted on 09/21/2026 1:40:26 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: McGruff; All


HuggingFace hack?

Summary version:

https://youtu.be/2aw3MF8pY3w?si=ZCjXrjFzIk3gtb-L

Detailed version:

https://metr.org/hugging-face-incident-report-aug-2026.pdf

https://huggingface.co


18 posted on 09/21/2026 1:43:01 PM PDT by Drago (.)
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To: XRdsRev

That is the most ludicrous comment I have ever heard. I don’t think you know what the word “responsible” means.


19 posted on 09/21/2026 1:47:14 PM PDT by tcox4575
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“Wasn’t me. It was the agents”

The creators/programmers/managers get to claim innocence/ignorance only once.

After that, the free pass should be gone.

You say the agents broke the rules that THE HUMANS HAD SET UP for them in this experiment. The key here is that the humans set the boundaries. That is where your liability exists.


20 posted on 09/21/2026 1:47:45 PM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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