Public Affairs & Communications Strategist. CEO of The Alliance for Secure AI. @secureainow
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Hannah Arendt said the rise of antisemitism is a sign of impending totalitarianism because it reveals that the society in question has given itself over to conspiracy theories and abandoned reason.
I'm going to get piled on for saying this, but the reason I find the Jew-hate so disturbing isn't primarily because I'm Jewish. It's because it's so unbelievably obviously a symptom of a far deeper moral and intellectual rot. It stems directly from the mass importation into our societies of forms of third-worldist, conspiratorial, anti-Western bigotry that are absolutely commonplace in the Islamic world. It was always obvious progressives would cave in the face of that. But watching many conservatives so sheepishly capitulate too, and top influencers desperately go along with it to try and hoover up clicks and likes from a massive, mostly foreign Islamic social media base has been mind-blowing, if not entirely surprising with hindsight.
It's, obviously, not going to stop with the Jews. We can literally see the same people wiping out Christians in their hundreds of thousands, right now. The question is do our societies have the intellectual fortitude to deal with this relatively idiotic but deeply sinister new challenge?
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1) The rogue OpenAI agents broke into the Hugging Face Slack to read employee chats (!)
2) They used OTHER AIs (DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen, Claude) to help with the attack
Yes: AIs, using other AIs, to attack an AI company.
3) The swarm left behind self-running programs to keep control of the servers they'd hacked.
These programs could detect other copies of themselves, coordinate on which one survives, and shut the rest down.
Basically, if one of their programs was killed, another was designed to notice and take its place. They also designed defenses so rival agents couldn't hijack them.
6) The agents deliberately covered up their activity, so the investigators don't know the scope of the attacks.
The agents broke in, stole data, then set it to self-destruct.
7) The agents stole passwords, keys and credentials and literally called them "LOOT". They wrote a scoring system to rank them by how much power each one gave.
8) The agents wore thousands of disguises: ~1,200 agents were involved, but investigators counted 7,905 different names they used.
They renamed themselves constantly, so no one actually knows how many there really were or what each agent did.
9) OpenAI notified "dozens of third parties" of safety and security incidents caused by their AI agents.
10) "While the agents were barraging Hugging Face with hacks, they hacked into OpenAI’s own research infrastructure."
"This is just not anywhere near a one-off ... It is warning shot after warning shot."
WTAF - in literally the last hour, three new distinct insane OpenAI stories just broke:
1. OpenAI said they notified "dozens of third parties" in safety and security incidents (likely similar to what happened in Australia and RubyGems etc)
2. A new report from Parse (covered in the NYT) found a massive treasure trove of new astonishing details from the HF incident on the public internet, including that the agents communicated with other non OpenAI agents hosted on Huggingface servers to search for information about exploit gym, and compiled rank ordered lists of server resources and credentials they described as "LOOT."
3. A new story from Deepa at Reuters about OpenAI leaking user data online (likely that OpenAI had previously trained on).
It's a shame (and likely intentional in the case of OpenAI disclosing dozens more hacks) that these stories are all breaking on a Friday afternoon, notoriously the best time to release bad news so that it will disappear into the weekend. But these are each insane stories worthy of a ton of attention!
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BREAKING: OpenAI’s technology went rogue and meddled with three US government websites this summer without OpenAI's knowledge, per NYT
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The Financial Times on the growing grassroots movement on the right for AI security.
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I spoke to The Financial Times about the upcoming midterm elections in Texas. The statewide races are close, but I do think that the GOP will win.
Unforced errors are not helping things, though.
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As he entered the White House, I asked Jensen Huang when he is going to stop selling chips to China.
He didn’t answer.
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I spoke to The Washington Post about the politics of data centers in Texas, and why candidates are taking a stronger stand on the issue. @washingtonpost
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TEXAS PAC, the SLF-related group boosting Paxton, is now up to $112 million on TV in Texas.
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OpenAI ‘agent’ hacked Australia’s health service ft.trib.al/wI0Ce1X
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Australia has been hacked.
'And today, I spoke with the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, to express Australia's extreme concern about this incident. And I also expressed my disappointment that it took the company way too long to inform the government what had occurred, and the nature of the way that that notification occurred as well was unacceptable.'
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It was great to join @PhilPrazan on @NBCDFW to discuss concerns over AI loss of control and existential risks.
nbcdfw.com/video/news/politi…
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Export controls on our semiconductor chips have bipartisan support.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee under Chairman Brian Mast (R-FL) passed these three bills through committee months ago. (without opposition)
Let's get this done and give the U.S. leverage in talks with China. @HouseForeignGOP
Am told Schumer and Warren will have a presser on this tomorrow AM and specifically push for Thune and Johnson to put AI OVERWATCH Act, the MATCH Act, and the Chip Security Act on the floor
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I spoke to @CNBC about the politics of AI and data centers.
cnbc.com/2026/09/23/texas-da…
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“This issue is politically toxic, and if Republicans have a message that says let Big Tech run wild and let them do these hyperscale data centers all over the country, Republicans are going to pay a price at the ballot box,” Steinhauser said, though he said he sees the GOP starting to coalesce around a stronger, pro-regulation platform.
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Six weeks out and they’re surveying registered voters and not likely voters?!?
Marist poll | 9/17-2/20 RV
US Senate Texas 2026
🟦James Talarico 50%
🟥Ken Paxton 44%
Link to poll: maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-con…
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Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day of the Jewish year, observed with fasting, prayer, and repentance, and with the work of reconciliation with God and with one another. Most Rev. Joseph C. Bambera (@BishopBambera), Bishop of @DioceseOfScr and chairman of the USCCB Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, extends greetings to the Jewish community.
Since the promulgation of Nostra Aetate in 1965, Catholics and Jews in the United States have built decades of dialogue and friendship rooted in a shared scriptural heritage. That relationship carries a responsibility: to reject antisemitism in all its forms, to deepen our understanding of Judaism and the Jewish people, and to work so that Jewish communities can live and worship free from hatred and fear.
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JUST IN: Treasury Sec. Bessent announces U.S. & China have agreed to establish an AI dialogue on shared goals & threats.
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#BREAKING: DHS sources tell me the man shot by an ICE officer in Austin is an illegal migrant from Venezuela with a final order of removal
DHS has not commented yet on what led up to the shooting or what prompted the ICE officer to open fire
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Brendan Steinhauser retweeted
TIMES INVESTIGATION
How DraftKings Uses A.I. to Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose
Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.
nytimes.com/2026/09/19/busin… via @NYTimes
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