Of note:
I'm going to throw up a question about the investigation of the Hugging Face incident. When you do an investigation of any dangerous incident, one key element to examine is human error. But the Model Evaluation and Threat Research (METR) institution didn't do that. They seemed only interested in what the agents were doing. That is, they anthromorphized the agents, while turning the humans into non-player characters.
Did OpenAI researchers and executives know the risks they were taking and take steps to manage them? What kinds of human discussions were happening internally around these models? How did they mitigate these risks internally? Did they discuss legal liability? Was the board or were executives involved?
These are the kinds of questions to ask if you are a real regulator. I don't see where or if METR asked them. Mostly they footnoted that these questions are 'out of scope.' They saw this project as a technical inquiry into the capabilities of intelligent models, not as an analysis of a dangerous accident. They interviewed eight researchers. Any executives? Any board members or lawyers?
From the Silicon Valley Bank fiasco to the Space Shuttle explosion to the 737 Max, we've always realize that human behavior is the foundation of how complex systems behave. That is true here too. I don't see any analysis of the actual people at OpenAI making decisions about the tools used for hacking.
Am I missing something?